Pastoral Resources

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

A library implies an act of faith.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!