Faith And Reason Quotes:

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

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Truth, Wings, Two, Faith And Reason

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

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Faith, Love Is, Thoughtful, Faith And Family, Agnosticism

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

- Galileo Galilei

source: "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

topic: Believe, Humor, Religion, Obliged, Anti Religious

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.

- Martin Luther

topic: Spiritual, Struggle, Enemy, Faith And Reason

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

- J. Michael Straczynski

source: "Fictional character: Brother Alwyn Macomber". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

topic: Shoes, Feet, Reason, Faith And Reason

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

- Saint Augustine

source: "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual, Lost Faith, Belive

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.

- J.P. Moreland

source: J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig (2009). “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

topic: Believe, Biblical, Dark, True Faith, Faith And Reason

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

- Voltaire

topic: Faith, Spiritual, Cancer, Belive, Spiritual Faith

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

source: Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.138, Library of America

topic: Drawing, Battle, Life Is, Sustenance, Faith And Reason

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.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Two, Religion, Wish, Different Emotions, Faith And Reason

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

- John Donne

source: John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Faith, Hands, Soul, Left Handed, Left Handers

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

- D. Elton Trueblood

topic: Trust, Faith, Belief, Spiritual Faith, Alcoholics Anonymous

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Morning, Eye, Atheism, Anti Religious, Religious Faith

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

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Thinking, Religion, Atheism, Lack Of Faith, Evidence Of God

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

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

topic: Science, Judgement, Kind, Faith And Reason, Conceptualization

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.

- Leslie Stephen

source: Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.52

topic: Religion, Atheism, Facts, Faith And Reason, Half Measures

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

- Martin Luther

topic: Faith, War, Feet, Medieval War, Faith And Reason

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.

- Martin Luther

topic: Religious, Humor, Sight, Blinded, Faith And Reason

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.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

topic: Ambition, Democracies Have, Democracy, International Affairs, Faith And Reason

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Faith, Believe, Said, Science Religion, Atheistic

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

- William James

topic: Faith, Philosophical, Believe, Faith And Reason, Great Faith

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.

- Conrad Black

topic: Determination, Government, People, Faith And Reason, Government Officials

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

- William James

source: William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社

topic: Believe, Philosophical, Government, Morality And Religion, Philosophy Of Religion

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.

- Robert Jastrow

source: God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

topic: Dream, Ignorance, Science, God Is There, Faith And Reason

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Sports, Men, Hands, Gullibility, Helm

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

- Saint Augustine

topic: Religious, Believe, Lost Faith, Keep Your Faith, Spiritual Faith

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

- Sam Harris

source: "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

topic: Zero, Reason, Scientist, Faith And Reason

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.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

topic: Hands, Evaluation, Facts, Faith And Reason, God And Science

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

- Thomas Aquinas

source: Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

topic: Men, Catholic, Reason, Faith And Reason

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, Religion, Reason, Gullibility, Christian Right

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

- Frank Wilczek

topic: Religion, Would Be, Answers, Faith And Reason, Anthropic Principle

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.

- Rick Santorum

topic: Government, World, Reason, Faith And Reason