FAITH

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1. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.—J. M. BARRIE, The Little White Bird
   

2. He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.—Bible, 1 Timothy 5:8
   

3. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.—Bible, Hebrews 11:1
   

4. Faith without works is dead.—Bible, James 2:26
   

5. Man is not sufficient unto himself. He must have a rallying cry, a slogan by which to die and by which to live. . . Even an empty slogan is better than no slogan at all.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Preface to The Fifty-First Dragon
   

6. Do you know how I would live if I renounced religion and was illogical enough to disbelieve in a life beyond—in the real life? Why, if I threw away and denounced my faith, I would surround myself with the most adroit hijackers, learn every trick of the highest banking and stock manipulations, avail myself of the laws under which to hide my own crimes, create a smoke-screen to throw into the eyes of men, and—believe me, I would become the world's champion crook.—FATHER COUGHLIN
   

7. His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
   Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.—ABRAHAM COWLEY, On the Death of Crashaw
   

8. The cleverest defenders of a faith are its greatest enemies; for their subtleties engender doubt and stimulate the mind.—WILL DURANT, The Story of Philosophy
   

9. If we are certain our faith rests on the sure foundation of reality, we must be content to understand that the failure of others to accept it in no way destroys its truth.—GEORGE LANSBURY, My Pilgrimage for Peace
   

10. If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of scepticism.—NIETZSCHE, The Twilight of the Idols
    

11. Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith—the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

12. One may lose one's faith for any number of reasons; and, as a general rule, a man who loses his faith is convinced, at any rate at the beginning, that he has obtained some gain in exchange for it.—PIRANDELLO
    

13. Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.—Proverb

14. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

15. In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.—STEVENSON, Pulvis et Umbra

16. Faith in faith established evermore Stands a sea-mark in the tides of time.—SWINBURNE, A Sea-Mark
    

17. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
    Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

18. Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
    And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith.—TENNYSON, The Ancient Sage
    

19. Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others to find it.—TOLSTOY
    

20. I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.—REBECCA WEST, I Believe
    

21. When faith is lost, when honor dies,
    The man is dead!—WHITTIER, Ichabod
    

22. Talk Faith. The world is better off without
    Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.—ELLA W. WILCOX, Speech
    

23. One in whom persuasion and belief
    Had ripened into faith, and faith become
    A passionate intuition.—WORDSWORTH, The Excursion