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.
O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.
“Origen cut off his own balls,” Martin informed Randall.
“Prostate cancer?”
“Faith.”
Booth died blind and still by faith he trod,
Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.
She had lost faith in him so gradually that at first he'd hardly even noticed.
I believe the magnificence of creation is enough inspiration for faith.
Have strong faith. Ask yourself the hard questions. And never be afraid to start over.
It is Nature herself, as we grow in comprehension of her, who weans us from our early faith.