Pastoral Resources

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I've always had great faith in people.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.