Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.
John Christopher
faith
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.
friendship
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
morality human-mind
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
relationships
Some people are oil and water.
Truth does not surround itself with lies.
truth
One enjoys friendship most when dines are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together.
truth inspirational
His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.
anger
A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.
courage
He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.'And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?'In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.
education
In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.
equality
What men do matters more than what they know.
ethics
The order should not have been given,' she said. 'It was not done for the city but for your private ends.'I shook my head. 'There is no difference.'You believe that?'A Prince must, or he is no Prince.
government
And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
healing
More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.
humanity
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