Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1920s, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
“The ancient teachers of the Buddhist doctrine were well aware that courage is an essential feature of true faith. They therefore compared faith to a strong and courageous hero who plunges ahead into the turbulent waters of a stream to lead safely across the weaker people who timidly stop at the shore, or, excitedly and in vain, run up and down the bank engaged in useless arguments about the proper place to cross.”
Source: The Vision of Dhamma (1994), "Courageous Faith", p. 304
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Variant: Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
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Jonathan Sacks (1948) British rabbi
The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010
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Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952) p. 17
Context: What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what courage, what faith — win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
“Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.”
Ted Malloch (1952) American businessman
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 67.