Quotes about faith
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C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 11 “Faith” (1952)- C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letter (17 July 1953); Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 251
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Eliza Gurney (4 September 1864); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 535
Martin Luther1483–1546The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 74- Martin Luther1483–1546Preface to the Epistle to the Romans (1522)
- Martin Luther1483–1546At the Diet of Worms (18 April 1521). The words are in early printed accounts of his reply but not in the record of the session, which has only “God help me, Amen”, so whether he said them is disputed
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 14 “Types of Men”—3: The Believer
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 31. Of Divine Ordinances (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essays, Book I, Ch. 27, It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity- MMuhammad571–632Hadith, in Riyadh as-Salihin by al-Nawawi, vol. 4, no. 681
