Faith & Spirit Quote by Sherwood Eddy

Eddy flips the usual courtroom drama of faith on its head: it is not a verdict reached in defiance of the facts, but a wager placed in full view of risk. The first sentence repudiates the brittle caricature of believers as people who grit their teeth against evidence. That move matters because it detoxifies faith from anti-intellectualism and relocates it in the body: not what you assent to, but what you are willing to do when certainty is unavailable.

The second sentence is where the engine is. "Daring" turns faith into a verb with nerve, a posture of moral experimentation. Eddy’s emphasis on consequences is a quiet rebuke to safe, purely interior spirituality. If faith costs nothing, it’s just preference. If it exposes you to loss, ridicule, or failure, it becomes legible as conviction. The subtext is activist: real belief shows up as action under pressure, not as private certainty.

Contextually, this reads like the theology of a social-gospel era writer who watched modernity tighten its grip: science rising, institutions hardening, and humanitarian crises demanding more than pious sentiment. Eddy offers a version of faith that can survive in a skeptical age because it doesn’t compete with evidence; it competes with inertia. In that framing, doubt isn’t the enemy. Consequence is. Faith isn’t a loophole around reality; it’s the courage to enter it and still choose a costly good.