Zadie Smith Quotes

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.