Ultimately, it is that faith — those ideals — that are the true measure of American leadership.
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.
If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength.
I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.
Rather than not hav faith in enny thing, i am willing tew be beat 9 times out ov 10.
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried …
Faith is for the part of the story that superficially isn’t believable.