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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.
Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart.
Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart.
To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, read more
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which
to-day are fables to us!
[Fr., Combien read more
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which
to-day are fables to us!
[Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy,
qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the read more
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
