Best Faith And Reason Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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