Quotations about

Faith

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

—Sophy Burnham

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

—Stanislaw Lem

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

—Stella Terrill Mann

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

—Stella Terrill Mann

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

—William Hazlitt

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

—William Shakespeare

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

—Gordon Atkinson

Don't put your faith in anyone. You have it all inside you. You're always asking the masters. Why don't you ask yourselves? Forget the masters.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

—Eric Hoffer

Tis not the dying for a faith that is so hard… 'tis the living up to it that is difficult.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

—B. C. Forbes

Nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

—Erin McCarthy in Hard and Fast

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

—Eric Hoffer

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

—Steve Jobs