The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
~ Therese Of Lisieux
Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
~ Vance Havner
Your faith is what you believe not what you know.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
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.
~ Major Kira Nerys
Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.
~ Saint Clare Of Assisi
No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
~ Elsa Einstein
It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. ... Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives us along it.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.
~ John Calvin
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
~ George Sand
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
~ Jerzy Lee Stanislaw
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
~ Saint Augustine
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
~ Blaise Pascal
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
~ Marlene Dietrich
It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Faith is the continuation of reason.
~ William Adams
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.
~ Jacques Cousteau
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
~ C. S. Lewis
Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.
~ James Schouler
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
~ John Donne
It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
~ Alfred
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~ Voltaire
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
~ Henry Christopher Bailey
Faith is reason grown courageous.
~ Sherwood Eddy
Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
~ William Barclay
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
~ Ernest Renan
If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.
~ Anonymous
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
~ Marianne Moore
It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
~ French Proverb
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.
~ Heinrich Heine
Loving is half of believing.
~ Victor Hugo
A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.
~ Julius Charles Hare
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~ Kahlil Gibran
