“A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.”
Words and Things (1959)
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(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 407).

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“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
As quoted in 1927 (2000) by Robert P. Fitton