„Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.“

„My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

Variante: My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
Fuente: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

„And of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity, the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve.“

—  Bartolomé de las Casas Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer 1474 - 1566

History of the Indies (1561)

„In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

Fuente: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

„Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.“

—  Jean Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher 1712 - 1778

„Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.“

—  Yann Martel, libro La vida de Pi

Fuente: Life of Pi

„Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.“

—  Ludwig Van Beethoven German Romantic composer 1770 - 1827

„Put your faith in what you most believe in.“

—  Phil Collins English musician, songwriter and actor 1951

Fuente: Disney's Tarzan

„For the priests and medicine men of isolated pockets of resistance against christianization or islamization somewhere in Africa or America, it must be quite a boost of faith in the future to see this kind of international gathering under the auspices of the most successful resister, Hindu Dharma.“

—  Koenraad Elst orientalist, writer 1959

Fuente: 2000s, Return of the Swastika : Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007), Ch. 6

„The gods of all pagan faiths have been allied with the rich rulers. The priests of most religions are the employees of the landowners. But the God of Israel has always claimed to be with the poor—whether in the legislation of Deuteronomy, the words of the prophets, or the experiences of the New Testament. Our God is on the side of the poor.“

—  John Howard Yoder 20th century American Mennonite theologian 1927 - 1997

Fuente: Radical Christian Discipleship (2012), p. 41

„Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans?“

—  John Gray, libro Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

The Human: Science versus Humanism (p. 3)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

„Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.“

—  Erich Fromm German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900 - 1980

Fuente: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 483
Contexto: Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie, concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.

„Amyas, my most careful and faithful servant, God reward thee treblefold in the double for thy most troublesome charge so well discharged.“

—  Elizabeth I of England Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603 1533 - 1603

Letter to Amias Paulet (August 1586), the gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots, quoted in Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Rose (eds.), Elizabeth I: Collected Works (The University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 284.

„And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

Fuente: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

„Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers.“

—  Carl Eckart American physicist 1902 - 1973

Fuente: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 94.

„The trouble with you, Ti, lectured Leo kindly, is that you lack teaching experience. If you had, you’d have faith that the most unlikely people can learn the most amazing things.“

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

Fuente: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 9 (pp. 166-167)

„Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.“

—  Robert K. Merton, libro Social Theory and Social Structure

Fuente: Social Theory and Social Structure

„The most important component of the incompatibility between science and religion is religion’s dependence on faith.“

—  Jerry Coyne, libro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fuente: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 67

„The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.“

—  Padre Pio Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887 - 1968

„Religion does not mean to surrender to dogmas and religious scriptures or conformity to rituals. But my religion constitutes an abiding faith in the perfect values of truth and the ceaseless attempt to realise them in the inner most part of our nature.“

—  Hans Ji Maharaj Indian guru 1900 - 1966

Fuente: Satgurudev Shri Hans Ji Maharaj, (1970) Albion Press