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.
Harry Dresden: I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it.
Have faith in Divine Providence that guides the destinies of men and nations.
Using my platform to share my Christian faith is the most valuable use of my time and resources.
Just listening to teachings is not enough. You should develop faith within yourself.
Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!