Christopher Dawson Quotes

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.