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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. -- Sam Harris
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance. -- Conrad Black
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. -- Leslie Stephen
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other. -- Krista Tippett
In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile. -- J.P. Moreland
Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society. -- Rick Santorum
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. -- Elie Wiesel
The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love. -- Rumi
God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason. -- Ravi Zacharias
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. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. -- Norman Cousins
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. -- Martin Luther
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. -- Joseph Glanvill
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. -- John Paul II
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. -- Frances Wright
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. -- Francis Collins
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. -- Cat Stevens
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. -- Blaise Pascal
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. -- Johan Huizinga
Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves. -- Pope John Paul II
I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy. -- Faith Hill
I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body. -- Paloma Faith
I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage. -- Paloma Faith
Faith is reason grown courageous. -- Sherwood Eddy
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. -- Voltaire
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. -- John Donne
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith. -- Mohsin Hamid
Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it. -- Nachman of Breslov
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To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith. -- Dennis Prager
Reason is the enemy of faith. -- Martin Luther
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. -- Albert Pike
Faith is not contrary to reason. -- Sherwood Eddy
Faith is a continuation of reason. -- William Adams
Faith is stronger than so-called reason. -- Hermann Hesse
Faith doesn't begin until reason stops. -- Jean-Claude Carriere
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose. -- Neil Young
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. -- H. C. Bailey
Faith is not the opposite of reason. -- Richard Dawkins
Faith is reason at rest in God. -- Charles Spurgeon
As far as possible, join faith to reason. -- Boethius
Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason. -- Mark Hart
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. -- John Dryden
Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant. -- Martin Luther
Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins -- William James
In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. -- Leo Tolstoy
Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic". -- R. Alan Woods
Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith. -- Ravi Zacharias
Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith." -- Ravi Zacharias
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. -- Jostein Gaarder
Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith -- Pope Benedict XVI
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. -- Domenico Cieri
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life. -- Jean Ingelow
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason! -- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. -- Charles Spurgeon
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason. -- Thomas Aquinas
America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason. -- Julian Whitaker
Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God. -- Charles S. Price
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. -- William Batchelder Greene
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse. -- Sting
Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey. -- Eduard Heine
Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. -- Richard Dawkins
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. -- Boyd K. Packer
This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs. -- Allan Kardec
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. -- Voltaire
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. -- Thomas Browne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity -- John Donne
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. -- Richard Dawkins
Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact. -- Martyn
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light. -- John Dryden
Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances. -- Timothy Keller
There's always faith... Faith that whatever the other is doing, it's for a good reason. -- Peter Burke
Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose. -- Willie Stargell
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. -- Fernando Pessoa
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason -- Thomas Aquinas
Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future. -- Christopher Dawson
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. -- James Richardson
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. -- Jules Verne
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing) -- Sting
Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason. -- Emile Coue
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. -- Martin Luther
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith. -- Jostein Gaarder
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. -- John Paul II
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate. -- Girdhar Joshi
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more. -- Thomas Merton
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. -- Polly Toynbee
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. -- Blaise Pascal
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it. -- Martin Luther
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. -- Francis Collins
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. -- Harper Lee
Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision. -- L. P. Jacks
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation. -- George H. Smith
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Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see. -- Josh Ross
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. -- Bertrand Russell
Reason is the ten mile marker on the journey of a hundred miles. Faith is the compass that points the way. -- Tom Hackett
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it. -- Eden Phillpotts
Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part. -- Hasse Jerner
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. -- Heinz Pagels
Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason. -- Michael Thomas Ford

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