I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies!
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.
In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours.
In Epictetus the Greco-Roman soul has lost its paganism, and is ready for a new faith".
The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.
Our faith rests not on words of earthly wisdom but on the manifestation of the power of the Spirit.
My scepticism warns me of the danger of becoming a fanatic, a danger which no faith has yet averted.
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
I don't consider myself a “religious” person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.
Religion is what you sing on Sunday, Miss Stovall. Your true faith is what you want all week.