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.
Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.
If you've lost your faith in love and music, oh, the end won't be long.
Ah, my faith! I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Canst thou not wait for Love one flying hour
O heart of little faith?
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.
Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.
Under the warm breath of religious faith all social institutions become plastic.
We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
If it were not for the Brahmins, we should have all the heathens embracing our faith.
I have been chosen for the destruction of the enemies of the Faith.