Quotes of: Catholic-faith Keyword

Darth Sidious: I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend. At last, the Jedi are no more. Yoda: Not if anything to say about it I have! [Yoda force flings Darth Sidious across the room and across his desk] Yoda: At an end your ...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered...

Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline

We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can gather is currently in this room. Sin paused to look at Simi, Xirena, Damien, Kat, Kish, and Xypher. It was a pitiful number of defenders. But...

Devil May Cry

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess, but the fact remains that she's your mortal bride in the Year...

The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Which grave are we in?" she said. "The oldest." She felt Eddie's puzzlement. "That can't be possible. He looks like he was just buried." "There must be something at work in the chemistry of the island that's preserving his body. It's like the incorru...

Island of the Forbidden

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will rea...

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited ...

My Reading Life

You and I are faced with one of those situations (which fortunately are not very numerous in one lifetime) which cannot possibly be adequately judged beforehand. It strikes me as a colossal gamble, or rather, a very great adventure. And personally I ...

The Medium and the Light

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come by – even men in those circumstances have sex with other men and abuse children. Look at the Catholic Church! Man i...

Mouth

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she could...

The Sun Also Rises

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pur...

Philip Pullman

Surely we can only come to understand each other's beliefs by means of direct encounter and open, honest discussion. In the meantime, many free churches invite all believers in Jesus Christ to the Table for the sake of true spiritual unity that trans...

Roger E. Olson

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

The Cost of Discipleship

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Change of Heart

I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.

Collision

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Confessor

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

With Christ in the School of Prayer

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

Caged in Spirit

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

The Da Vinci Code