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.
One feels weak only when they believe someone will offer support.
Faith...makes the discords of the present, the harmonies of the future.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Know how to rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do.
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.