No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis de Sade

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
Louis L'Amour

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul Tillich

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
Paul Tillich

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean Jacques Rousseau