Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Faith Quotes
Faith here means both belief in God and belief in anything at all, and the page does not try to separate them. Abraham Joshua Heschel is the most-quoted author. After him come Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Jesus and Paul, along with a good number of sceptics.
The sceptics are often the more quotable. H. L. Mencken, in Prejudices, Third Series (1922): “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), asks whether it is not enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it. Montaigne, in the Essais: “Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”
Two popular lines are flagged as misattributed: the one about the mind conceiving and believing, credited to W. Clement Stone, and the one about the NHS lasting as long as people have the faith to fight for it, credited to Aneurin Bevan.
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.