Faith over Reason Quotes

Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

If the word of God and scholarship disagree, then to Hell with scholarship!

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Our people need affirmative faith and material security more than they need rights and true science.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

Why understand when you can believe?

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.