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No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë1818–1848No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)In context
- Courage
Strike from mankind the principle of Faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Caxtoniana (1862), Essay XVIII. Faith and Charity
- History
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Truth & Lies
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Thinking
We don’t have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Think Big (1996), p. 146
I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977My Autobiography (1964), p. 291
- Ideas
We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. We shall see all evil and all our pain sink away in the great compassion that shall enfold the world. Our life will be as peaceful and tender and sweet as a caress. I have faith; I have faith.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act IV, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Hope
- Life & Death
I know now, I understand at last, Constantine, that for us, whether we write or act, it is not the honour and glory of which I have dreamt that is important, it is the strength to endure. One must know how to bear one’s cross, and one must have faith.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Seagull (1896), Act IV, spoken by NinaIn context
- Fame
Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead (1922)
- Atheism
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 21In context
- Nature
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
William Cowper1731–1800Light Shining out of Darkness (1774)In context
- God
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
William Cowper1731–1800Light Shining out of Darkness (1774)In context
- God
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Book of Lies (1913), 45: Chinese Music
I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), volume II, chapter VII: “The ‘Origin of Species’”, pages 311-312; letter to Asa Gray (22 May 1860)
- God