
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922)
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 19 (p. 371)
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922)
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Source: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 14 "Types of Men" - 3 : The Believer
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
Source: 1950s, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 215
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 89 -->
Context: Faith is not belief, an assent to a proposition, faith is attachment to the meaning beyond the mystery.
Knowledge is fostered by curiosity; wisdom is fostered by awe. Awe precedes faith; it is the root of faith. We must be guided by awe to be worthy of faith.
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the world becomes a market place for you. The loss of awe is the avoidance of insight. A return to reverence is the first prerequisite for a revival of wisdom, for the discovery of the world as an allusion to God.
“I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.”
Source: Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
“The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”
“That would require an unprecedented leap of faith. I don’t do faith, Scorpio said.”
Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 515)