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.
"Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most."
But doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.
Educational technique needs a philosophy, which is a matter of faith rather than of science.
Respect the beliefs of other people, so your faith remains strong.
Every man whose faith is other than predestinarian
Is, according to the Prophet, even as a guebre.
Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.
Despair is a mortal sin; it is the rejection of an active, living faith in Christ.