Pastoral Resources

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.