Faith Quotes

Barth, Karl

Faith is never identical with piety.

Bible

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (Ecclesiastes 11:1)

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And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (I Corinthians)

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11 1)

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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. (James I, 5&6)

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Boston

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

Campbell, Joseph

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Channing, William Ellery

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Davenant

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

de Unamuno, Miguel

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Gibran, Kahlil

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Halle, Louis J.

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.

Hart, Johnny

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, andself-annihilation.

Haskins, Henry S.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

Hebrews

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Heinlein, Robert

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people: I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come judgment day.

Hoffer, Eric

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

James, William

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Kauffman, Walter

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Kierkegaard, Soren

Without risk there is no faith. Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual's inwardness and the objective uncertainty. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

Kipling, Rudyard

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

Knowles, F.M.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Lecky, W.E.H

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.

Machiavelli, Niccolò

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Maclaren, Ian

The world cannot always understand a person's profession of faith, but it can understand service.

Mencken, H.L.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Pope Gregory I

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

Pope, Alexander

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Santayana, George

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

Shaw, George Bernard

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Shimkin, Dr. Michael B.

Alas, reason is not effective against faith, or against searches for miracles by the desperate.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Thackeray, William

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thoreau, Henry David

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Tillich, Paul

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Unknown

"Faith" can be defined as "any man's hope that the human spirit is capable of understanding"; that anything actually matters in the larger universe; and that understanding anything could be important outside of our own selfish whims and desire to survive....and somehow, because it is important, understanding can go on without us, waiting only to be rediscovered by the future, or at worst, pissed away, in spite of all our prayers, and work, and suffering.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Wordsworth, William

Nought shall prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is full of blessings.

Young

Faith is not reason's labor, but repose.