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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.

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Most quoted on faith:

If you can bring me one student whose faith I have injured in Mormonism, I will bring you five that you, through your narrowness, have driven out of the church.

Ralph Vary Chamberlin

"It is art which is the ideal that binds peoples together," continued the great emotional actress. "It is a faith to which all is sacrificed

Cécile Sorel

I went to a faith based girls’ only school where discipline and values were instilled in us.

Florence Nsubuga

Have a little faith in young daughters, they are not too bad

Roshni Nadar

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms

Elizabeth Alexander

Human beings live only in faith.

Divo Barsotti

I know I'm a good bowler, you know you're a good batsman. It's about how we tackle each other mentally and who has more faith in their ability and execution.

Imran Tahir

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Martin Luther Table Talk (1569)

We saw people of faith praying together and chanting – “Muslims, Christians, We are one.”

Barack Obama Remarks on Egyptian political transition (2011)

We are living in an age when faith is diminishing. If you abandon God, the Devil will take his place.

Gabriele Amorth An Interview With Fr Gabriele Amorth - The Church's Leading Exorcist (2001)

A fist is a fist. It resonates throughout the world. It means power, pride and faith. It was my cry for freedom in 1968.

Tommie Smith

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Swami Vivekananda

We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings.

Fulton J. Sheen

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left…

James Connolly

I profess implicit faith in two articles of my creed. This country of ours is the true land of promise. This race of ours is the chosen race.

Mahadev Govind Ranade

When we got our weapons, first we said for [Christian] Faith and then for the Nation.

Theodoros Kolokotronis Kolokotronis's Memoirs (2013)

I will not be bullied by bad-faith actors trying to rules-lawyer my own principles against me into treating neo-Nazis with respect they don’t deserve.

Laurie Penny

Place your only faith, reliance, and trust on Karma (Vol. I, Letter 1)

William Quan Judge Letters That Have Helped Me (1891)

“I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience. (p330)

Marjorie Agosín I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)

I do not think I can be a poet who sings (and singing contains wailing) for Africa without having faith that Africa can one day do right by its citizens.

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

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