Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.