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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests read more
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it read more
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come
to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was
never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Faith is reason grown courageous.
Faith is reason grown courageous.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle read more
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.