“Faith is not in power but in truth.”

p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

Source: The Darkness That Comes Before

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Section 13; often the final portion of this is quoted alone as: "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Context: The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience; a readiness to attempt the impossible; a bias for simple solutions — to cut the knot rather than unravel it; the viewing of compromise as surrender; the tendency to manipulate people and "experiment with blood."
Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 36

They resemble the ocean itself; always there — vast, fathomless, sublime, the same in its majesty, its inexhaustible fullness, yesterday, to-day, and forever; the same in calm and storm, by day and by night; changeless while generations come and pass; everlasting while ages are rolling away.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 261.

Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 298

Volume II, chapter IV, section 103.
The Stones of Venice (1853)

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential