Vincent McNabb Quotes

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

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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

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

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.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Pray in faith.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

I have a deep faith in God.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

I just need to stay loyal to God and anything can happen.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

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

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

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.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.