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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:

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Ancient Sage (1885)

Faith, mighty faith the promise sees
And rests on that alone;
Laughs at impossibilities,
And says it shall be done.

Charles Wesley

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Max Lucado

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it — especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Robert A. Heinlein

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other... except through faith.

Stephen King Danse Macabre (1981)

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Aleister Crowley The Book of Lies (1913)

What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine,
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?
They sought a faith's pure shrine.

Felicia Hemans The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers (1826)

I firmly believe that everyone should be free to pursue their desires as long as it does not harm others or society.

Suman Pokhrel

I believe that the human being is the most complicated chapter of existence, with thousands of dimensions.

Suman Pokhrel

For the heart, it needs to believe.

Simon Soloveychik Parenting for Everyone (1989)

There littleness was not; the least of things
Seemed infinite; and there his spirit shaped
Her prospects, nor did he believe,—He saw.

William Wordsworth The Excursion (1814)

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life.

Bahá'u'lláh

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.

Josiah Gilbert Holland Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The object of faith is the truth, which God has revealed in an extraordinary way

Gottfried Leibniz

Not Truth, but Faith, it is
That keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Paul of Tarsus

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

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