Faith/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words faith and/or criticism:

    Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
    William James (1842–1910)

    Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)