Margot Asquith Quotes

We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. The relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. Sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. Sometimes, as St John of the Cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

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?

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

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

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.