Francis Collins Quotes

Faith is a continuation of reason.

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

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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.

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

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

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

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

I believed in God my whole life.

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

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

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

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

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.