Ann Casey

America's Courage of Faith Ann Casey

"Our wise old Church," he said then, "has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be granted to you: if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled: if you will surround yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you. The distance that separates you from faith is no greater than the thickness of a cigarette paper."