The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
The loyalty well held to fools does make our faith mere folly.
The definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
The ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
NEVER CONFUSE FAITH, OR BELIEF—OF ANY KIND—WITH SOMETHING EVEN REMOTELY INTELLECTUAL.
Men like us are good and proud and strong… if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses…
It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith — as mysterious as faith itself.
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.
If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.
