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Quotes About Faith

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
~ Gautama Buddha
Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.
~ George Coyne
Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.
~ George Coyne
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
~ Gao Xingjian
Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.
~ George Lucas
No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.
~ William Henry Drummond
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.
~ Graham Kendall
A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?
~ Graham Kendall
Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
~ Henry Spencer
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
~ Henry Tizard
Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.
~ Howard Storm
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
~ Wellington Mara
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
~ J. G. Holland
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
~ Yann Martel
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
~ Albert Einstein
One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.
~ Stephen King, The Mist
I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.
~ Voltaire, Micromegas
A man of logic is a man of sin.
~ Mike Norton
She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke