The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Now, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
He believed because he wanted to believe. And that, too, is madness.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.