Meher Baba Quotes

I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by.

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

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.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

All things proclaim the existence of God.

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will say that God is all Love. Others will say that God is all Power. Each one will see God according to his own necessity, his own receptivity and, finally, according to the way God wants him to see the ultimate Truth.

My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.

Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?