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

• 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

• The laws of certain states …give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property…. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war …thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

  

  Marcus Garvey
  • Life
  • God
  • America

• What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Reality

• I'll give him credit for any steps in the right direction, but I'm not moving him into the recommend column until he fixes all of it.

  

  John Reed
  • Moving
  • Credit
  • Steps

• Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

  

  Bryan Cranston

• All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

  

  James Lecesne
  • Help
  • Faith
  • Community

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

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • God
  • Hope
  • Trust