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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.

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Most quoted on faith:

On Day One, a startup is a faith-based enterprise.

Steve Blank The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012)

There is a fine line between public expressions of faith and aggressive declarations thereof, and religious tolerance is inversely proportional to the latter.

John Allen Paulos A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)

Love is never more than a faith, and that’s why it’s so exciting.

Scott Crary

I think a faith which has never asked questions is questionable.

Colm O'Reilly

"Epistemological transformation does not mean one epistemology as a norm, but a pluriversal, trans-modern approach to faith and beliefs knowledge."

Vuyani Vellem

When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony,
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

William Shakespeare Julius Cæsar (1599)

We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.

Adolf Hitler

A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life of knowledge and faith.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)

Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.

Osama bin Laden

I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.

Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practising whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faiths and beliefs.

Meher Baba The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.

John Buchan Midwinter (1923)

We are not all equal, and never shall be; the true postulate of democracy is not equality but the faith that every man and woman is worth while.

Stanley Baldwin

You can't do this if you're not dedicated and determined, and have a strong faith. Because it's extremely hard, especially trying to work a job and do it.

Ronnie Coleman

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Johan Huizinga In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

Richard Summerbell

Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?

Nicholas Sparks At First Sight (2005)

The fear of God at the beginning of faith is an unbearable thing to human nature.

Thomas Müntzer Exposure of False Faith (1524)

Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Compare yourself, for wealth, status and health to those lower than you. For faith, science, and virtue, compare yourself to those who are higher than you.

Ibn Hazm

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