Faith Quotes

It was the schoolboy who said, “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”

Mark Twain  (1835-1910) American author.

“Faith” means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, “I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

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

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

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

Bible, Hebrews.

Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see.

Faith beings as an experiment and ends as an experience.

W.R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s London.

To believe only possibilities is not Faith, but mere Philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne (1603-1682) English physician, author.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist, philosopher.

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

John Donne (1572-1631) English divine, metaphysical poet.

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

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist.

Faith affirms many things respecting which the sense are silent, but nothing which they deny. It is superior to their testimony, but never opposed to it.

Pascal.

Faith is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it things past, and things to come; it converses with angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. Every man that hath this grace is as certain there are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as if he had heard and sung the thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.

Jeremy Taylor.

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the divine word which did not expand the intellect while it purified the heart; which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

Coleridge.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word faith.

Napoleon.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God, and freewill, and immortality arise.

Kant.

Faith marches at the heard of the army of progress. It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

T.T. Munger.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

A.A. Hodge.

Under the influence of the blessed Spirit, faith produces holiness, and holiness strengthens faith. Faith, like a fruitful parent, is plenteous in all good works; and good works, like dutiful children, confirm and add to the support of faith.

Faith in an all seeing and personal God, elevates the soul, purifies the emotions, sustains human dignity, and lends poetry, nobility, and holiness to the commonest state, condition, and manner of life.

Juan Valera.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Froude.