Quotes About Faith

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.