And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts

I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller