Thomas Aquinas on faith

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 11 “Faith” (1952)

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Augustine of Hippo354–430Sermones 4.1.1