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.
We don't have issues with other faiths in the locality. Some people are trying to create problems.
IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state.
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.