He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to "Defe...nder of the Faith," than George the Third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of s...imple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to h...ire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told y...ou, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same ...faith under another mask?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the local... and state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering ... I will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners. ...A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looked upon with historical objectivity, the Catholic Church as a religion has far better prospects. Consider its unified, world-w...ide papal leadership, the methods of Catholic ecclesiastic thought, and the life-pervading sanctification of existence, both in everyday life and at great moments; add the present glory of a thousand years of art, the multitude of religious activities, the impressive power of priests and religious, spiritually rooted celibates whose existence the faith consumes; top it off with Catholic piety, based on the Church but far from its violence and political cunning, and even spreading a touch of philosophy among the populace--compared with all this, Protestantism seems poor. Yet Protestantism, whatever may be held against it, has one virtue that outweighs all flaws. It is the principle of its birth: the chance of breaking through every religious phenomenon to a new original realization. In Catholic eyes, Protestantism is purely negative. It gives up tenet after tenet, ending in what must seem to a Catholic the total disappearance of all religious essentials--the God-man, the Resurrection, the personal God, the sacraments--and it pulverizes itself by endless internal schisms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »