Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

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.

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

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

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.

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

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.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt.

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

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

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

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.