Quotes about faith
146 quotes from 98 people
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 84
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Book of Lies (1913), 45: Chinese Music
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan, 10 August 1947, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 89, p. 137.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 40:31 KJV
W. H. Auden1907–1973Forewords and Afterwords (1973), “Concerning the Unpredictable”
Tertullian150–220De Carne Christi 5.4
Graham Greene1904–1991Remark (8 July 1987), reported in Leopoldo Durán, Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait (1994), p. 97
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 31. Of Divine Ordinances (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Ichabod, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Letter to William James (24 March 1907).All that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274Processus canonizationis S. Thomae, Neapoli, LXXIX
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Caxtoniana (1862), Essay XVIII. Faith and Charity
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February 1927)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)