Do we say faith or hope

faith 16654 occurrences

Amir-Hamza according to Professor Dryasdust died before the Prophet, but according to the Troubadours of Islam was the hero of a thousand stirring deeds by flood and field and by the might of his right hand converted to the Faith the Davs and the Peris of Mount Kaf (the Caucasus).

When I grew to girlhood I determined to study medicine and serve the women of my faith as a doctor.

Mated with a good man of mine own faith she will never know regret.

He has an abiding faith in the doctrine of "Live and let live.

"You seem to have no faith in either men or women," responded the rich barytone voice of his Highness, the dark upper lip disclosing, as before, the row of square, sharp, ivory teeth.

He was fickle in his infallibility, but he had the firmest faith that he was working for the peace of the world and above all for the glory of the United States.

We are bound to recognize his good faith, but we are not in the least bound on that account to admit his capacity to tackle the problems which with his academic simplicity he set himself to solve.

Peoples, like individuals, are far from representing with anything approaching completeness such social conceptions as we call violence and right, honesty and bad faith, justice and injustice; each people has its different characteristics, but no one people represents good, or another bad, no one represents brutality, or another civilization.

You can impose severe conditions, but that does not mean that you can enforce them; the conditions to be imposed must be such that a responsible German Government can in good faith assume the obligation of carrying them out.

He wanted to go back to America and meet the Senate with at least something to show as a record of the great undertaking, and he hoped and believed in good faith that the Covenant of the League of Nations would sooner or later have brought about agreement and modified the worst of the mistakes made.

The practical effect of this fuller insight into the blessings to be had by those who yield themselves up to Jesus Christ in simple faith, "was evident," remarks her sister, "in her daily true-hearted, whole-hearted service for her King, and also in the increased joyousness of the unswerving obedience of her home life, the surest test of all.

The most loyal and deep-seated love needs not to shut its eyes to all defects and limitations, but can face them unchilled; and similarly there is often more faith and reverence and quiet enthusiasm in this seemingly cold and critical attitude towards the cause or party we love, than in the extravagant idealism that depends for its maintenance on an ignoring of things as they are.

From such souls God requires faith, and obedience to the commandmentsa due, which, in certain rare crises, may mean heroism and martyrdom; but He does not expect of them that refinement of sanctity, that sustained attention to divine things, which depends so largely on one's natural cast of mind and disposition; and may even be found where the martyr's temper is altogether wanting.

By my faith, Sir Sheriff, I would be ashamed to show my face if I did not reckon the King's deputy at three hundred pounds.

But in a moment, his pity and loyalty and staunch faith in her crowding the small ache out of his heart, he was unrolling a pack, making a temporary couch for her and commanding her lovingly just to lie down and look up at the tree-tops above her, and rest while he staked out the horses.

The logical conclusion of the faith that every good gift cometh from God is the open hand and the finer courtesy.

" She lifted up once more her eye of faith.

" There was the pride of an unswerving faith in the triumphant tone and smile with which she replied, raising and slowly shaking her head: "Ah-h, no-o-o, Miché!

And by my faith, it is mighty pretty.

Vergina; noi sciamo salvati!"(we are saved by a miracle of the Most Holy Virgin!) which, of course, I did not or could not dispute, allowing, as I do, all men in such circumstances, to indulge freely in their peculiar faith, so long as it does not interfere with me or mine.

The natural reaction was that the peoples of Europe and their statesmen lost a measure of their enthusiasm and faith in the project.

"The result of the present method has been to destroy their faith and arouse their resentment.

Thus diplomacy, in spite of the announced intention to reform its practices, has retained the evil taint which makes it out of harmony with the spirit of good faith and of open dealing which is characteristic of the best thought of the present epoch.

The Members of the League agree that they will carry out in full good faith any award that may be rendered, and that they will not resort to war against a Member of the League which complies therewith.

Lone in her chamber sat Leorre, and heard The songs of Kathanal by courtiers sung Arousing words, like a clear clarion call To truth and virtue, purity and faith.

hope 32211 occurrences

Did you ever have an obstinate cold,a six or seven weeks' unintermitting chill and suspension of hope, fear, conscience, and everything?

Montgomery's book I have not much hope from, and the society with the affected name has been laboring at it for these twenty years, and made few converts.

Dear B. B.,I have had no impulse to write, or attend to any single object but myself for weeks past,my single self, I by myself, I. I am sick of hope deferred.

Yours, in tremors of painful hope, C. LAMB.

The relief was hinted to me from a superior power when I, poor slave, had not a hope but that I must wait another seven years with Jacob; and lo!

By this time I hope it is all over with him.

We hope the Frank wines do not disagree with Mrs. Patmore.

But when we are fairly in, I hope she will come and try it.

You have spurred me on this tiny effort, and at intervals I hope to hear from and talk to you.

A little after ten o'clock on Saturday forenoon, I went into the Boardroom, in the hope of catching there some glimpses of the real state of the poor in Blackburn just now, and I was not disappointed; for amongst the short, sad complainings of those who may always be heard of in such a place, there was many a case presented itself which gave affecting proof of the pressure of the times.

In the evening, I ran down to the beautiful suburb called Pleasington, in the hope of meeting a friend of mine there; not finding him, I came away by the eight o'clock train.

a week; but, after struggling on in the hope of better times, and exhausting the savings of past labour, they had been brought down to the receipt of charity at last, and for sixteen weeks gone by the whole thirteen had been living upon 6s.

When we got to the lower end of Hope Street, my guide stopped suddenly, and said, "Oh, this is close to where that woman lives whose husband died of starvation.

It felt almost like sacrilege to peer thus into the privacies of such people; but I hope they did not feel as if it had been done offensively.

"I hope not," replied Catrina quietly.

I hope he tells you everything.

And Smike says, 'W-i-n-d-e-r,' 'All right,' Squeers says, 'now go out and wash 'em,' Well, I hope I got the spelling a little nearer right, but I came home and began washing my windows.

I hope you will forgive me that thought, when I tell you that now I know what ignorance it revealed in me.

It's the only thing that we Americans can do in Mexico with any hope of avoiding suspicion or of our presence being acceptable to the Mexicans in the long run.

Then he spoke: "Marty, when J.W. comes home I hope something will set him thinking about the outer world that has no word of our Christ.

He hasn't seen it yet, not clearly; and you know that there isn't any hope for that world to get out of the depths until it gets the news of a Helper.

I can bear my solitary misery, can brave the sufferings of an isolated existence; but I could not live under the disappointments of such a hope, a hope fairly quickened by a clear expression from your lips.

I hope every day, as it adds to their experience, will diminish that ardour which is generally the effect of imperfect views, which is commonly raised by partial considerations, and ends in inconsiderate undertakings.

These, my lords, are surely great advantages; but these are not the greatest which we have reason to hope.

The satisfaction that I have is this: What I did, and what I attempted to do, was my protest,a protest which resounded from one end of the Union to the other, and which, I hope, by the dissemination of this, my narrative, to renew and repeat it,it was my protest against the infamous and atrocious doctrine that there can be any such thing as property in man!

Do we say   faith   or  hope