Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.Dean Inge
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.
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