Quotes About Faith

Faith is much better than belief.  Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You can’t solve many of today’s problems by straight linear thinking.  It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

— Matina Horner

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I could prove God statistically.

— George Gallup

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

— Ambrose Bierce

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world.  We couldn’t even eat hash with any safety.

— Josh Billings

Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Hebrews 11:1

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

— Luke 1:37

The Lord is my strength and my shield.

— Psalms 27:1

He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be moved.

— Psalms 62:6

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.

— Exodus 15:2

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If a man really has strong faith, he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

— H. L. Mencken

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience.  I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

— Madeleine L’Engle

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

— Samuel Butler

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

— Wilson Mizner

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

— George Bernard Shaw (attrib.)

We do not pray to be tempted, but not to be conquered.

— Origen

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

— Margot Asquith