Pastoral Resources

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.