This weekend the New York Times blog, Schott’s Vocab, solicited definitions of faith. The blog posted the examples:
Faith is described in the Bible as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
H. L. Mencken called faith “an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
And, Samuel Butler said of faith, “You can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.”
Read the 1,256 definitions provided by readers here.