Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) Christian missionary
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Eerdmans, 1989 (reprinted 2002),19.
“To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 23.
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