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.
I follow one uniform system and that is founded in the strictest honour, faith and duty.
Don't be fooled and distracted by the things that steer you away from your faith.
I think that's where I really went deep. My faith in God, it will really be tested in a good way.”
Theology must either regress to blind faith or progress towards free philosophy.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
Miracles are magic processed by faith and a lack of a scientific imagination.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.