Pope John Paul II Quotes

Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.

To be able to lean back on my faith and to realize that God's plan is way bigger than mine. You have to trust in that.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

I don't live my life as a Christian with trepidation, feeling that perhaps I've failed to give the best gospel possible on each occasion, but realising that God's taking care of a lot through his Holy Spirit.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Because God is faithful, He can be trusted fully to completely carry out His commitments to us in Christ.

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.