Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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 goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
Listening to the conversation, his faith in the stupidity of human nature was fully restored.
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.
The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
If you believe in science [evolution] you must have a rather strong faith.