"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it." ― Anton Chekhov Topic(s): Faith More From Anton Chekhov "Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable." "Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit." "When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that’s faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that’s science." More In Faith "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."― Joseph Conrad "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."― Pearl S. Buck "If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They’re soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part."― Hannah More