FAITH QUOTES III

quotations about faith

Faith is a pair of spectacles fitted by God in a dispensary for the poor, whereby the near-sighted can see truth at a distance, and get rid of pain from eye-strain.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

THOMAS REID

Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

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All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

DAN SIMMONS

Carrion Comfort

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Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

The Blazing Star

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"Anima Hominis", Per Amica Silentia Lunae

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A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

PHILIP YANCEY

Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

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A man who cannot stand upright, cannot, of course, walk. And a man whose faith has no backbone to it, can do nothing but crawl or float about, to and fro, with the advancing and receding tide.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

ARTHUR MILLER

The Crucible

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If you hate anyone because of your faith, you're doing it wrong.

ANONYMOUS

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No piece of evidence--or lack of evidence--can either support or refute faith. Unfortunately, few people realize that. Some people search for proof of spiritual things in the material world. That is foolish and doomed, because nothing material has any bearing on anything spiritual. Spiritual truths can only be learned via spiritual means.

BOB LONSBERRY

A Various Language

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To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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We may still say perhaps "faith governs the world"--but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest--it is in reason and science.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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Faith has not lost its power. The soul still enjoys this privilege of receiving inspiration from above. It is not the special prerogative of a few saints. It is the common right of all. It is not an occasional, exceptional gift. It is constant, continuous, the law of our being. It is not a miracle, interfering with the operations of the human soul. It is the condition of our soul's true life.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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Faith is a coat against ... nakedness. For most of us, most of the time, faith functions so as to screen off the abyss of mystery that surrounds us. But we all at certain times call upon faith to provide nerve to stand in the presence of the abyss--naked, stripped of life supports, trusting only in the being, the mercy and the power of the Other in the darkness. Faith helps us form a dependable "life space," an ultimate environment. At a deeper level, faith undergirds us when our life space is punctured and collapses, when the felt reality of our ultimate environment proves to be less than ultimate.

JAMES W. FOWLER

introduction, Stages of Faith

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To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you; to be always true to the divine self; to rely upon the inward Voice, the inward Light, and to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will yield unto you the need of every thought and effort; knowing that the laws of the universe can never fail, and that your own will come back to you with mathematical exactitude -- this is faith and the living of faith.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts

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A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world.

TONY BENN

The Observer, April 16, 1989

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As a reason is superior to sense, so faith has the preeminence over reason. Be reason reverenced in matters that fall within her sphere; but when she ventures into deeps of God, the seas where faith has all the sovereignty, when acting like herself, she lowers her sails. As sense would seem to tell us many things which reason contradicts, so faith will rectify the fond mistakes of reason: nor ought she to be dissatisfied. Faith only shuts the eye of reason, not picks it out. Nor these alone submit themselves before this noble grace; even others her fellow virtues do obeisance. Though, as a gracious quality, she stands upon a level with the rest; yet, as an instrument, she far excels in glory. She cannot boast indeed of her intrinsic worth, but of the post of honor which she fills by heaven's appointment. She only is the general receiver of all the blessings of the gospel. By her we call heaven's rich unfathomable mines our own. Because she humbleth herself, therefore hath God highly exalted her, and given her a name above every grace. Even charity herself is only greater in duration: for, she abideth when faith shall fail, as to its actings; and die like Moses, in the mount. Such is her humble nature, that even the jealous God, who will not give his glory to another, even he is found to give his glory unto her. We are saved by faith; we are justified by faith. She faithfully returns the glory to her object. He has regarded the low estate of his handmaid, because himself has said, them that honor me, I will honor.

WILLIAM MCEWEN

"On Faith", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity


Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

SAM HARRIS

The End of Faith

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