Faith (disambiguation)

Faith is the belief in the truths of religion; belief in the authenticity of divine revelation.

Faith may also refer to:

  • trust (social sciences) in a person or entity
  • Good faith, bona fides, the mental and moral state of honesty
  • Bad faith, a legal concept in which a malicious motive on the part of a party in a lawsuit undermines their case
  • Bad faith (existentialism), mauvaise foi, a philosophical concept wherein one denies one's total freedom, instead choosing to behave as an inert object
  • the first of the theological virtues in Catholic theology
  • Any specific system of religious belief ("one's faith"), see Religion
  • Fáith, the Irish for "prophet, seer"

Famous quotes containing the word faith:

    My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)