Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert Hubbard
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles Spurgeon
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson Mizner
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis de Sade
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Anton Chekhov
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
Dwight L. Moody
