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.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious
faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? read more

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious
faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If
not, have none of it.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, read more

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.

In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, read more

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In read more

Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can read more

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do
not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and
rightly--faith in God.

Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!

Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!