Pastoral Resources

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.