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Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith. -- Ravi Zacharias
Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith." -- Ravi Zacharias
In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In between reason and faith is a happy place, an inch away from where lies sorrow, an inch away from where lie peace -- Anonymous
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. -- Frances Wright
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. -- Sam Harris
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 believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 doesn't begin until reason stops. -- Jean-Claude Carriere
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. -- Albert Pike
Reason is the enemy of faith. -- Martin Luther
Faith is a continuation of reason. -- William Adams
Faith is not contrary to reason. -- Sherwood Eddy
Faith is stronger than so-called reason. -- Hermann Hesse
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. -- Voltaire
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose. -- Neil Young
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. -- H. C. Bailey
Faith is reason at rest in God. -- Charles Spurgeon
Faith is not the opposite of reason. -- Richard Dawkins
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
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. -- John Donne
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. -- Leo Tolstoy
Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic". -- R. Alan Woods
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. -- Jostein Gaarder
Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith -- Pope Benedict XVI
Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
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
Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey. -- Eduard Heine
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse. -- Sting
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. -- William Batchelder Greene
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
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason. -- Thomas Aquinas
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith. -- Mohsin Hamid
Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. -- Boyd K. Packer
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs. -- Allan Kardec
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it. -- Nachman of Breslov
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact. -- Martyn
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity -- John Donne
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
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. -- Richard Dawkins
I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose. -- Willie Stargell
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
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light. -- John Dryden
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. -- Fernando Pessoa
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. -- Jules Verne
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason -- Thomas Aquinas
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. -- James Richardson
Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future. -- Christopher Dawson
Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason. -- Emile Coue
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing) -- Sting
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. -- Martin Luther
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
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith. -- Jostein Gaarder
In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate. -- Girdhar Joshi
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. -- Polly Toynbee
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. -- Blaise Pascal
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. -- John Paul II
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. -- John Paul II
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more. -- Thomas Merton
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. -- Harper Lee
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
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it. -- Martin Luther
To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith. -- Dennis Prager
Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision. -- L. P. Jacks
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Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it. -- Eden Phillpotts
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation. -- George H. Smith
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part. -- Hasse Jerner
Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see. -- Josh Ross
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one. -- J. Michael Straczynski
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
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms. -- Christian Scriver
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. -- John Locke
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason. -- James E. Faust
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. -- Heinz Pagels
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. -- Terry Goodkind
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
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. -- J.M. Barrie
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous. -- Richard Dawkins

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