Faith And Reason Quotes

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Why is there something rather than nothing?

For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.