Faith, hope and objectives

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Faith, hope and love

Than it started – first surgery, then chemotherapy, then radiation, and all over again for several times. Although I was only 11, my mum and my dad explained to me what was going to happen, why my mum needed to remove her breast, why she was going to loose her hair, and why she might be sad from time to time. At first it was OK to deal with it because I was a kid and kids see everything with a ...

faith, hope and doubt

for many religious people there is a problem of doubting various creedal statements contained in their religions. often propositional beliefs are looked upon as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition, for salvation. this causes great anxiety in doubters and raises the question of the importance of belief in religion and in life in general. it is a question that has been neglected in phil...

Spreading hope and faith to troubled women.

Kathleen Montgomery looks no further than the founders of her employer for L inspiration as manager of the Mercy II Women's Center in Sacramento, Calif. "I 'm so honored to work for the Sisters of Mercy. It's the first thing I say when someone asks me what I do," Montgomery said. "[The sisters] are an amazing group. The founders were a gusty group of women. The sisters today have just as much f...

The elements of medicine: faith, hope and credence.

till I have worked up my patients into a confidence bordering upon certainty, of their probable good effects.” William Osler, the most prominent physician of the 20th Century, remarked: “Faith in us, faith in our drugs and methods, is the great stock in trade of the profession.” In Osler’s iconic textbook (which has guided medical students for over four generations), he said that three factors ...