If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of read more

What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--
They sought a faith's pure shrine!

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried,
"Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"
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We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried,
"Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!
What man can look on Death unterrified?

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.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe read more

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.