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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• 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

• Libraries can take the place of God.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Place
  • Libraries

• 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

• My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Truth

• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Hope
  • Moving
  • Present

• I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Taken

• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

  

  George Bancroft
  • God

• It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • World
  • Men
  • Taken

• If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Game
  • Girl

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

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • God
  • Hope
  • Trust