FAITH: THE GREAT CONQUEROR - By Orison Swett Marden



I am that which is back of all achievement, which has led the way to success, to happiness, through the ages.
I crossed an unknown ocean with Columbus, who without me would never have discovered America.
I was with Washington at Valley Forge; and but for me he would not have succeeded in liberating the American colonies and making them a nation.
I went through the Civil War with Lincoln, and guided his pen when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation that freed millions of human beings from slavery.
I was with the English patriots who forced King John to sign that great charter of human rights—the Magna Charta.
I was back of those who forced the French Revolution—and of those who signed the American Declaration of Independence.
I was with Christ when all his disciples and friends had fled; and I cheered and comforted the martyrs at the stake—all the men and women who gave their lives to maintain the truths He taught.
I crossed the ocean with Cyrus W. Field fifty times before his great undertaking, the ocean cable, was perfected. I was on the ship with him when the cable parted in mid-ocean, after the first message had passed over it, and gave him courage to persist when the work had to be done all over again.
I am the locksmith who can unlock all doors, whom no obstacle can hold back, no difficulty or disaster dishearten, no misfortune swerve from my purpose.
I am a friend to the down-and-outs, the unfortunates, those to whom life has been a great disappointment. If these people would take hold of me I would turn them around so that they would face their goal and go toward it instead of turning their back on it and going in the opposite direction; they would face the sun and let the shadows fall behind instead of in front of them as in the past.
I am a booster, an optimist, one who always sees something of hope in every human being, for I know that there is a God in every one; that men and women are gods in the making; that they are all capable of doing infinitely more, infinitely better things, than they have yet done.
No matter how bad the conditions which confront me, I wear a smile, for I know that the sun is always behind the clouds and that after a time the storm will pass and the sun will shine again.
I see triumph beyond temporary defeat. I look past obstacles which discourage most people, for I know that they become smaller as one approaches them; and experience has shown me that but a very small fraction of the things which people dread, fear, and worry about ever happen.
If you know me, if you believe in me, work with me, cling to me, no matter how full of failures and disappointments your past has been, I will help you to overcome adverse conditions and crown you with success, for I conquer all difficulties.
I AM FAITH

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