A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
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