I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Faith is not a sense nor sight nor reason but taking God at His work.
It is not reason which makes faith hard but life.
An unexamined faith is not worth having for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence destruction and terrorism.
All that I say is examine inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions the for and against. Know why you believe understand what you believe and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart not by the reason.
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith than George the Third.
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Things can fall apart or threaten to for many reasons and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately when you're at the edge you have to go forward or backward if you go forward you have to jump together.
Faith must trample under foot all reason sense and understanding.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Faith is not contrary to reason.
Faith is reason grown courageous.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Reason is our soul's left hand faith her right.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.