Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself.
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.