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.
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.
All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith.
Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science.
Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.