"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 "Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out." "No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith." "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other." More In Faith "What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time."― Barack Obama "I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment… rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."― Franz Liszt "I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself."― David Sarnoff