If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
And we shall be made truly wise if we be
made 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.
Charms Klngsley—Health and Education
On Bio-Geology.
The only faith that wears well and holds its
color in all weathers is that which is woven of
conviction and set with the sharp mordant of
experience.
| author = Lowell
| work = My Study Windows. Abraham
Lincoln. 1864.
O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
| author = Milton
| work = Camus. L. 213.
That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. XII. L. 294.
Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
| author = Milton
| work = To Cyriac Skinner.
Combien de choses nous servoient hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!
How many things served us yesterday for
articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us!
Montaigne—Assays. Bk. I. Ch. XXVI.
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| text = But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
Moore—Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of
Khorassan.
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taith produce no works, I see
That faith is not a living tree.
Thus faith and works together grow;
No separate life they e'er can know:
They're soul and body, hand and heart:
What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More—Dan and Jane.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. III. L. 305.
| seealso = (See also Cowley)
The enormous faith of many made for one.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. III. L. 242.
Be thou faithful unto death.
Revelation. II. 10.
Set on your foot,
And with a heart new-fir'd I follow you,
To do I know not what: but it sufficeth
That Brutus leads me on.
Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 331.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 13C.
The saddest thing that can befall a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Alexander Smith—A Life Drama. Sc. 12.
Faith is the subtle chain
Which binds us to the infinite; the voice
Of a deep life within, that will remain
Until we crowd it thence.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith—Atheism in Three
Sonnets. Faith.
It is always right that a man should be able
to render a reason for the faith that is within
him.
Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol.
I. P. 53.
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Idylls of the King. Merlin and
Vivien. L. 388.
Whose faith has centre everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself to form.
| author = Tennyson
| work = In Memoriam. XXXIII.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith.
17 Timothy. W. 7.
Faith, mighty faith the promise sees
And rests on that alone;
Laughs at impossibilities,
And says it shall be done.
Charles Wesley—Hymns. No. 360.
Through this dark and stormy night
Faith beholds a feeble light
Up the blackness streaking;
Knowing God's own time is best,
In a patient hope I rest
For the full day-breaking!
Whittter—Barclay of Ury. St. 16.
A bending staff I would not break,
A feeble faith I would not shake,
Nor even rashly pluck away
The error which some truth may stay,
Whose loss might leave the soul without
A shield against the shafts of doubt.
WHTrnER—Questions of Life. St. 1.
Of one in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.
Wordsworth—Excursion. Bk. IV.
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Of Faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind Wordsworth—Weak i» the WW of Man-
