King is sailing, they say

 Amazing what Google will bring up when searching for ‘faith + quotes’ (not that I necessarily agree with any of these):

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
-James Baldwin

Here is an oldie but a goodie -

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.
-Mark Twain

The last gasp of desperation for a Christian apologist -

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

This really has nothing to do with faith, but I kind of dig it -

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
-William Fulbright

St Thomas plagiarizing Hebrews again -

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
-St Thomas Acquinas

I’d love to get these four guys together for a light and breezy afternoon chat -

Faith is a continuation of reason.
-William Adams

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
-Henry Christopher Bailey

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-Kahlil Gibran

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-St. Augustine

Tryon Edwards died in 1894, so I will forgive him the ignorance of this statement -

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws — a thing which can never be demonstrated.
-Tryon Edwards

I love this 19th century Romantic style of writing. Short, succinct and profound. Herman here is certainly one of the greats -

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

I am going to have to read the Apocrypha sometime -

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
-Ecclesiasticus 6:16

and there has to be one black sheep of the bunch thrown in -

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
-Samuel Johnson