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:
“There is no assurance of the great fact in question [namely, immortality]. All the arguments are mere probabilities, analogies, fancies, whims. We believe, or disbelieve, or are in doubt according to our own make-upto accidents, to education, to environment. For myself, I do not reach either faith or belief ... that Ithe conscious person talking to youwill meet you in the world beyondyou being yourself a conscious personthe same person now reading what I say.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)