Pastoral Resources

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.