Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Muzzey’s aphorism contrasts two inner attitudes by their outward consequences. “Faith” here is less a doctrinal claim than a stance of trust and forward-looking resolve; it functions as courage because it enables action in uncertainty. Calling it “creative” suggests that belief in possibility generates new choices, institutions, or personal renewal—faith makes room for building. “Despair,” by contrast, is portrayed as inherently “destructive” because it forecloses agency: when one expects failure or meaninglessness, one tends to withdraw, sabotage efforts, or accept collapse as inevitable. The line thus frames hope as a practical moral force and pessimism as a self-fulfilling solvent of human projects.