Pastoral Resources

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.