"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves." ― Eric Hoffer Topic(s): Faith Tags: cause, faith More From Eric Hoffer "It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living." "One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action." "The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future." More In Faith "It’s possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That’s because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters."― Jon Meacham "Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."― Hans Urs von Balthasar "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."― Gilbert K. Chesterton