Quotes About Understanding

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do no explanation is necessary.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.