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:

    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-up—to accidents, to education, to environment. For myself, I do not reach either faith or belief ... that I—the conscious person talking to you—will meet you in the world beyond—you being yourself a conscious person—the same person now reading what I say.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)