i
The reason why the early Christians held faith in such account was because they felt it to be a feat of such superhuman difficulty.
ii
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
iii
We are all agreed that too much faith is as bad as too little, and too little as bad as too much; but we differ as to what is too much and what too little.
iv
It is because both Catholics and myself make faith, not reason, the basis of our system that I am able to be easy in mind about not becoming a Catholic. Not that I ever wanted to become a Catholic, but I mean I believe I can beat them with their own weapons.
v
A man may have faith as a mountain, but he will not be able to say to a grain of mustard seed: “Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea”—not at least with any effect upon the mustard seed—unless he goes the right way to work by putting the mustard seed into his pocket and taking the train to Brighton.