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.
The sect of lovers is distinct from all others,
Lovers have a religion and a faith of their own.
If for the Faith thou bear’st thy wealth, it then
The Prophet says, is pure to righteous men.
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
It is men of faith, not sceptics, who have made the world aware that they were in it.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.
Faith is the root of works. A root that produceth nothing is dead.