Quote by Whittaker Chambers
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when fai

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. – Whittaker Chambers

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At issue was the question whether this mans faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. – Whittaker Chambers

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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. – Whittaker Chambers

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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. – Whittaker Chambers

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

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To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder. – Louis LAmour

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I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. – Marvin Hamlisch

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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. – William Ames

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