“What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damn thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.”
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
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“Faith is belief in what I do not know now, so I can come soon enough for what I believe in.”
In The Art of Man-making: Talks on the Bhagavad Geeta http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ssyfCDBzOrYC&pg=PA187, p. 187

"Discoveries About Myself". Motion Picture, October 1930, pg. 90. (Brewster Publications). https://archive.org/stream/motionpicture1923040chic#page/n595/mode/2up

On her upbringing, Madam Secretary (2003), p. 512
2000s
Source: Madam Secretary: A Memoir

The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall (July 2006)

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
Variant: Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud