The Faith that Heals (1910)
Context: Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith — the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible. Intangible as the ether, ineluctable as gravitation, the radium of the moral and mental spheres, mysterious, indefinable, known only by its effects, faith pours out an unfailing stream of energy while abating nor jot nor tittle of its potency. Well indeed did St. Paul break out into the well-known glorious panegyric, but even this scarcely does justice to the Hertha of the psychical world, distributing force as from a great storage battery without money and without price to the children of men.
Three of its relations concern us here. The most active manifestations are in the countless affiliations which man in his evolution has worked out with the unseen, with the invisible powers, whether of light or of darkness, to which from time immemorial he has erected altars and shrines. To each one of the religions, past or present, faith has been the Jacob's ladder. Creeds pass, an inexhaustible supply of faith remains, with which man proceeds to rebuild temples, churches, chapels and shrines.
2012, Statement: on the Passing of His Father Rep. Salvador H. Escudero III
"The Holy Dimension", p. 335 - 336
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages. The overgrowth of creed may bring about the disintegration of that substance. The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.
“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”
Section 4, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 147.
“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)
Source: Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943), p. 51
To Mary Boyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
