quotations about faith
Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE
The Blazing Star
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?
GRAHAM GREENE
The Comedians
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.
SAM HARRIS
The End of Faith
In terms of faith, in terms of a daily reinforcement of it, I think it's just celebrating life. Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature--that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. I feel in my own way I do that in every day in honor of this life. If spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe that those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see --
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Faith is a fine invention"
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expression of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them, and drives us further apart.
BARACK OBAMA
The Audacity of Hope
Let the child feel Christ is near him;
By your faith will grow his own.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The King's Birthday", Mother Stories