Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report went on that this was not due to the religious faith of the soldiers but was a result of their ancestral extraction...
...Testament. Said he: "When I read in the Sermon on the Mount such passages as 'Resist not him that is evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on thy cheek turn to him the other also' ... I was simply overjoyed . . ." Gandhi once wrote that a living faith in nonviolence "is impossible without a living faith in God. A nonviolent man can do nothing save by the power and grace of God. Without it he won't have the courage to die without anger, without fear and without retaliation...
...went on for years-every time Bernard Shaw put on a new play, British critics said it showed the influence of Ibsen, or Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or some other subversive foreigner. "I confess," cried Shaw (in 1906), "there is something flattering in this simple faith in my accomplishment as a linguist and my erudition as a philosopher." But it was high time, he said, for him to scotch this "unpatriotic habit" by setting the critics straight...
Butler accused the canon of encouraging in him the despicable traits of unquestioning faith and conventional obedience, while damping down every speculative impulse. Once independent of the old man, Butler flew to the opposite extreme, making speculation his whole career...
...shouted for "Wintergreen." The Band had started off in a rather unpromising fashion, with a Suite by Holst and a piece by Vaughn Williams that seemed to suit the concert hall more than it did the players. But the call for "Wintergreen" showed that the audience still had faith in the Red Coats, and thought better of Stadium music than of symphony-type arrangements...