Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.