Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Not Truth, but Faith, it is That keeps the world alive.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.