Pastoral Resources

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.