About Faith

1.  "Commit your ways unto the Lord." But what good is a text like that when you are lying awake at midnight, and you have to decide for your whole life, and other people's too, whether it shall be yes or no? — Thomas Mann (1875-1955) from Buddenbrooks
2. "Faith" is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see — / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. — Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
3. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. — Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
4. All too often, people of faith like to enumerate the sins of other traditions while ignoring the stains on their own... But claiming that religion has only been evil is inaccurate. — Karen Armstrong (1944- ) in The Case for God
5. An old mountain man's prayer: "Lord, I don't ask for a faith that would move yonder mountain. I can take enough dynamite and move it, if it needs movin'. I pray, Lord, for enough faith to move me." — Norman Allen
6. Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside. — G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
7. Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. — Max Clarke
8. Faith makes things possible, not easy. — Unknown
9. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. — Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
10. Faith: the unknowable promoted to the irrefutable. — Brooke McEldowney (1952- ) in 9 Chickweed Lane Cartoon
11.  Faithfulness is the art of committing adultery only with one's mind. — Décoly