Faith

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Seeds of faith are always within us. Sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

"Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away."

"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."

"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cannot be taken on its own merits."

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."

"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes,
rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart,
hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself,
patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”