Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power 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.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

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

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

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

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

I'm not intolerant. I just know what it says in The Scriptures.