faith and rationality Quotes

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith.

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.