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.
It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
"We encircle the globe with a chain of love, faith and trust, knowing that He (God) is listening."
I have lost all faith in the steadfastness of human resolves.
"The Catholic writer really needs only three things to succeed: faith, hope and ingenuity" (31).
Joy is an outward sign of inward faith in the promises of God.
Great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil.