Faith Quotes

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

J. William Fulbright

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Faith - - Is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Ambrose Bierce

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

John Dalberg

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Chris Rock

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549