
“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 236.
“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
Section 13; often the final portion of this is quoted alone as: "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Context: The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience; a readiness to attempt the impossible; a bias for simple solutions — to cut the knot rather than unravel it; the viewing of compromise as surrender; the tendency to manipulate people and "experiment with blood."
Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
“Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.”
On faith - "Reflections On Prophet TB Joshua At 46" http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/113095 "American Chronicle" (August 5 2009)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.
“There's a difference between having the faith to believe and having the faith to receive.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 53
“Their faith alone will not profit them, because they have not done works of righteousness.”
On The Christian Life
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 227.
President of the Bishops' Conference: "It is time Zambia became a fully-fledged missionary Church" http://www.fides.org/en/news/66379-AFRICA_ZAMBIA_President_of_the_Bishops_Conference_It_is_time_Zambia_became_a_fully_fledged_missionary_Church (18 July 2019)
“Don't put your faith in the innovations. Keep your faith in Christ.”
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)