Great Throughts Treasury

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Tyron Edwards

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Duty | Faith | Firmness | Soul | Wisdom |

Thomas Dreier

All progress is made by men of faith who believe in what is right and, what is more important, actually do what is right in their own private affairs. You cannot add to the peace and goodwill of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.

Faith | Harmony | Important | Love | Men | Peace | Progress | Right | Wisdom | Work | World |

Ximénès Doudan

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

Faith | Man | People | Truth | Wisdom |

Lewis L. Dunnington

Fear builds prison walls around a man and bars him in with dreads, anxieties and timid doubts. Faith is the great liberator from prison walls. Fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages, fear sickens, faith heals; fear puts hopelessness at the heart of life, while faith sees beyond the horizon and rejoices in its God.

Faith | Fear | God | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Prison | Wisdom |

Henry Ford

The majority of people are naturally straddlers. They are not in the world to pioneer but to be as happy as possible. If pioneering in a cause brings discomfort, they would rather not be among the pioneers. they would rather stand on the sidelines and, in the combat between truth and error, wait and see which proves the stronger. Though they may have a lazy faith that truth at last will win, they do not wish to lend a premature support.

Cause | Error | Faith | Happy | Majority | People | Truth | Will | Wisdom | World |

William Maxwell Evarts

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne

Faith | God | Men | Society | Wisdom | World | Society | God |

Henry Ford

Few people realize what a substantial thing faith is.

Faith | People | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God, and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

Effort | Enough | Faith | God | Mind | Need | Perfection | Strength | Trust | Wisdom |

Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.

Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity. Religious faith has the miraculous power to lift ordinary human beings to greatness in seasons of stress.

Faith | Greatness | Hope | Life | Life | Men | Power | Serenity | Strength | Wisdom |

Charles Sherlock Fillmore

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Faith | Ideas | Men | Money | Power | Wisdom | World |

George Washington Goethals

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

Ability | Faith | Justice | Service | Wisdom | Leader |

Henry Giles

It is by faith that poetry, as well as devotion, soars above this dull earth; that imagination breaks through its clouds, breathes a purer air, and lives in a softer light.

Devotion | Earth | Faith | Imagination | Light | Poetry | Wisdom |

Henry H. Haskins

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.

Faith | Friend | Money | Wisdom |

Henry H. Haskins

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Faith | Man | Mind | Wisdom |

Thomas Guthrie

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

Commerce | Earth | Faith | Happy | Man | Peace | Prosperity | Security | Society | Wisdom | Society | Commerce |

William Gurnall

No man prays in faith who thinks he knows better than God; or who, not knowing, wishes that his ignorance may overrule God's wisdom.

Better | Faith | God | Ignorance | Knowing | Man | Wisdom | Wishes |

Frederick Dan Huntington

Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benediction on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety.

Charity | Devotion | Faith | Father | God | Love | Men | Piety | Suffering | Wisdom | Work | God |

H. L. Hollis

The future holds something for the man who keeps his faith in it.

Faith | Future | Man | Wisdom |

Aldous Leonard Huxley

Divisive forces are more powerful than those which make for union. Vested interests in language, philosophies of life, table manners, sexual habits, political, ecclesiastical and economic organizations are sufficiently powerful to block all attempts, by rational methods, to unite mankind for its own good. And there is nationalism. With the 57 varieties of tribal gods, nationalism is the religion of the 20th century. We may be Christians, Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians or Atheists; but the fact remains that there is only one faith for which large masses of us are prepared to die and kill, and that faith is nationalism.

Faith | Good | Kill | Language | Life | Life | Mankind | Manners | Religion | Wisdom |