“There are times in life, everyone of us, will confront an evil so profound that we do not know what to do. An evil so terrible and so intractable that we wonder 'why God doesn't act? Why God doesn't just do something?'”

“and the spirit God has given us is no cowardly spirit. But when we draw on it in love, nonviolence, forgiveness, compassion we can bring down the greatest powers of the world. No cowardly spirit but the spirit of the Living God.”

“once the disciples receive this grace and begin to act from it then they start to become worthy servants, just as we can as well if we follow the same path”

“Now what really matters in faith is not its size or power – it can be as small as a mustard seed. What matters is the infinite power of the one we believe in, the Creator of the world.”

“Faith is not faith if kept in reserve for emergencies. Faith is lived daily and shapes the way we think and behave. It is about receptivity to God’s presence in our daily lives and it is seen in our faithful behaviour.”

“it’s one thing to have faith, or at least to profess that one has faith; it’s quite a different matter to live by faith. That is hard. For faith means that the centre of our life has to shift from ourselves to God.”

“Real humility is not about considering ourselves to be so much rubbish, but about recognising the good in ourselves and then realising it comes from God. Our lives are valuable but we receive them from God and consequently owe everything we have and are back to God: that’s what our slavery amounts to.”

“Faith is an attitude of trust in the presence of God. It's an openness to what God will reveal, what God will do and what God will invite us to become.”

“Jesus is reminding us here that we can’t actually put God in our debt, and that even a holy life is only “normal” for God to expect of us. After all, holiness is normal, it is sin and evil that is abnormal. Sin may be typical, but it is still abnormal. ”

“generally, tests of fidelity come when you’ve been at Christianity for many years—they aren’t about testing faith, but about testing faithfulness. Will you be faithful to God when God is not giving you what you ask for?”

“I guess we all need from time to time such spirited reminders of the love God has for us, a reminder that we have been graced with nothing less than the Spirit of Christ crucified and risen in glory. Such support is proper to our shared life as sisters and brothers in Christ.”

“Faith cannot be lived in silence. It must be lived in total witnessing to Christ. And it can never be complete until it passes through passion.”

“God’s justice will come at the appointed time. We must wait for it. This waiting does not imply idleness”

“When I think of the spirit of Guatemalans who continue to stand up for their rights in spite of the brutal and violent ways that they have been put down, I believe that they must have the faith that Jesus challenged the apostles to adopt in today’s reading from Luke”

“Faith here means an awareness of the presence of the kingdom of God in the ministry of Jesus. Through faith the apostles (and, by extension, ourselves) participate in God’s saving work in and through Jesus.”

“Ours is to keep the vision before us, accept and embrace the mission we have been given to care for and to look after with all the strength and the inspiration that God gives us each day trusting in God, being one with all of creation and listening to the wisdom of creation that we are so grateful to serve.”

“Faith is a confidence in God, a reliance upon God even when we can't adequately see or understand what God is about”

“What does faith do? Faith lifts us up out of the little narrow world that we live in and connects us to the power and the mystery of God”