Quotes About Reason

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

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.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

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