Charles J. Chaput Quotes

When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.

Charles J. Chaput

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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God
  • Day
  • Thankful

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important

• Libraries can take the place of God.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Place
  • Libraries

• The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Weapons

• I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • World
  • Hope
  • English

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• I lost my eyesIn east wind skiesHere's where I've criedWhere I've triedWhere God and the Tendaberry riseWhere Quakers and revolutionariesJoin for life

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Life
  • God
  • Lost

• The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Mind
  • Pride

• 'Who can I trust?' Arthur blurted out. 'Those who wish you well,' said the Old One. 'Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn. And that is three questions and all your time.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Trust

• I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Wish

• I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Done

• 'Well', said Miss Marple. 'Are you going to let her get away with it?' There was a pause, then Father brought down his fist with a crash on the table. 'No', he roared - 'No, by God I'm not!' Miss Marple nodded her head slowly and gravely. 'May God have mercy on her soul,' she said.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • God
  • May
  • She

• All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

  

  Chris Abani
  • God
  • Together
  • Community

• Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Integrity

• My husband and my son are both such positive-thinking optimists. Together, they've succeeded in making me a bit like them. I am looking at the brighter side of life and enjoying this phase of my life the most.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Together

• To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • God
  • Hope
  • Trust