And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
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.
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.]
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you.
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
Sometimes you have to take those first steps, take that leap of faith, and inspire God to catch you.
Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency.
Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.