It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills than it is to keep a strong hearty living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests tilled our fields built our railroads fought our battles and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith a grateful heart a cheerful spirit and an undivided loyalty .
To have faith is to believe in truth believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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.
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.
And Jesus the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest most radical guy you'd ever come across.
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously and I would I think be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.