Faith Quotes

Faith refers to a trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. It commonly describes the process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation, a religious or spiritual belief system, and an obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to credibility or truth, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Faith as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Faith therefore works well as a quotation category because it can hold direct statements about the subject, figurative uses that borrow its meaning, and broader reflections that stay anchored to the same central idea. Faith is not limited to a single rigid definition in ordinary language, and that wider range is part of what makes the category useful for grouping related material without losing the term's main sense.

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Dale Carnegie

(1888-1955)

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Jennifer Hudson

(b. 1981)

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Mark Twain

(1835-1910)