H. C. Bailey Quotes

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

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

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

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

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

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

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

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

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.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?