“Why is Love more important than Faith? Because Faith is merely the road that leads us to the Greater Love.”

The River Duddon, sonnet 34 - Afterthought, l. 13 (1820)

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.

Teatro Quase Completo - Page 440, by Nelson Rodrigues - Published by Tempo Brasileiro, 1965

"Into the Fire"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)

Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

Section 94
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.

"Homily for the Marriage Jubilee Mass", at Holy Name Cathedral, August 30, 2015, reprinted in the online edition of The Catholic New World, the Chicago archdiocesan newspaper, in the Archbishop's Column (September 20 - October 3, 2015)