Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Letter to Samuel B. Hill, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14894 (6 July 1935) <br class="br">1930s
“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
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"The Holy Dimension", p. 338
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: The account of our experiences, the record of debit and credit, is reflected in the amount of trust or distrust we display towards life and humanity. There are those who maintain that the good is within our reach everywhere; you have but to stretch out your arms and you will grasp it. But there are others who, intimidated by fraud and ugliness, sense scorn and ambushes everywhere and misgive all things to come. Those who trust develop a finer sense for the good, even at the hight cost of blighted hopes. Charmed by the spell of love, faith is, as it were, imposed upon their heart.
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Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“Not merely a chip of the old 'block', but the old block itself.”
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) British politician
Nathaniel Wraxall, "Historical Memoirs of My Own Time", part 2.
Edmund Burke's reaction to Pitt's maiden speech in Parliament. The 'old block' was William Pitt the Elder.
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“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi
“He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
On Pitt's First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342
1780s