“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.” – James Russell Lowell
“Faith is reason grown courageous.” – Sherwood Eddy
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.”
– David S. Muzzey
“Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.” – Lillian Smith
“The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.” – Oliver Wendel Holmes
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” – Socrates
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.” – Henry Christopher Bailey
“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.” – Tyron Edwards
“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.” – Plato
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Gandhi
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” – William Ellery Channing
“We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.” – George Bernard Shaw
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” – Oscar Wilde
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” – Henry David Thoreau
“What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal,
supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.” – Voltaire
“Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world” – Kierkegaard