Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

People who confuse religion for faith are equating a flawed man-made concept to a divine relationship.