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.
You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.
Faith and God belong together somewhat as sense experience and physical reality do.
The atheists have the greatest faith: they believe that God does not exist.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.