Pastoral Resources

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.