“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Act iii, scene 4
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)
“Greek faith the due of him who is not known.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
La fede greca a chi non è palese?
Canto II, stanza 72 (tr. T. B. Harbottle)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
His counsel on Humanism in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 32
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
-Romans iv. 5. The following things may be noted in this verse:...That justification respects a man as ungodly. This is evident by these words,—that justifieth the ungodly; which cannot imply less, than that God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness in him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature...
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 221.
“Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables