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.
If you wish to love, it shall be, by my faith, for their beautiful eyes.
In our windy world
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
If God try our faith it is to show His faithfulness, and we shall lose the blessing by appeals etc.
"By all means come in, Kenneth."
"Some place. What holds it up?"
"Faith."
Saving faith is confidence in Jesus; a direct, confidential transaction with Him.
Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
World peace and security are best served when States observe treaties in good faith.