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.
An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.
And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool
Is but in folly stable.
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?