Faith And Reason Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It was the schoolboy who said, “”Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.””

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.