Pastoral Resources

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.