Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Religion is the opium of the masses.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

I think people can believe in anything.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

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.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

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

It is unfortunate for Christianity that it was founded on the book of Genesis. A scientific fact is higher authority today than a religious fable. Science has found so many facts that contradict the stories of Genesis that to accept these stories as divine truth is to make falsehood the word of God.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.