
“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
Source: Swoon
“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
Source: Attributed from postum publications, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.
“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
“Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.”
Commentary on Romans, cap 14, I 3
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.227 [ellipsis added]
“If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
Letter to John Ching Hsiung Wu (1924), published in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers (1936) by Harry Clair Shriver, p. 175.
1920s
“And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.”
opening lines, I Corinthians xiii (adapted)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
Context: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. … And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.
“That would require an unprecedented leap of faith. I don’t do faith, Scorpio said.”
Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 515)
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)