It does not take religious faith to recognize evil, it takes faith to see beyond the evil and embrace the essential goodness of the gift of life. (nakedpastor.com)
Anyone who believes in the essential goodness of the gift of life, in spite of all of the painfully tragic challenges to that belief that we experience and see daily thanks to our advanced media technology, has faith. (nakedpastor.com)
When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires. (nakedpastor.com)