Quotes about Faith

Faith divides writers more sharply than almost any other theme. James Russell Lowell valued only a faith woven of conviction and tested by experience, while H. L. Mencken mocked it as “an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable”. Benjamin Franklin put the conflict between faith and reason into a single image, of shutting the eye of reason in order to see.

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“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
VerifiedThe Comedians (1966) · evidenceDetails & citeFaith
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“In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.”
VerifiedIn Search of the Miraculous (1949) · evidenceDetails & citeFaith
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“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?”
VerifiedA Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), "God" · evidenceDetails & citeFaith
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“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.”
VerifiedA Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891 · evidenceDetails & citeFaith
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“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.”
VerifiedLetter to Augusta Gregory (November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, ] (p. 107) · evidenceDetails & citeFaith
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“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
— Plato
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