Quote by Whittaker Chambers
At issue was the question whether this mans faith could prevail ag

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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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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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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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief dont matter, that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return. – A. N. Wilson

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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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