For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.