Faith means different things to different people — trust in God, trust in the process, trust in other human beings. These quotes explore belief in all its forms, from religious devotion to the secular kind of faith that gets you through Tuesday.
“I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.”
“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.”
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.”
“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”
“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!”
“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
“A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.”
“Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.”
“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
“And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.”
“Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.”
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“A library implies an act of faith.”