All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Faith”

“We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.”
“The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.”
“The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.”
“If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.”
“The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.”
“Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.”
“That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.”
“A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.”

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