Marquis de Sade Quotes

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

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 and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.