Faith And Reason Quotes

“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history of the world, we’re actually getting dumber it seems. The amount of (mis)information at everyone's fingertips has lured us into a false sense of knowing. Whether it be information about science, politics, or theology, our society is suffering from an inability to research, process, filter, and apply. At the same time we seem entirely oblivious to the zeitgeist (spirit of the age) that is nihilistic and libertine, making everything relative and subjective. And Satan himself rushes to blur our vision, stirring up the dust of confusion. The church must respond by teaching the critical faculties of logic and spiritual discernment, embedded in a cohesive framework of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding). We must obtain a reasonable faith that is consistent with historic Christianity and relevant for our post-modern age. Otherwise, those rejecting the blatant errors of religious fundamentalism will be susceptible to every wind of false doctrine and repackaged heresy imaginable. They will leave the orthodox faith and accept something that vaguely resembles Christianity, but in reality is a vile concoction of demonic lies.”
― David D. Flowers

“If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties

“Learning is very often a question of whether someone has his soul in order, whether he can be attracted by "what is." Great things will not be seen by those whose souls are not ordered. I did not say that first. Aristotle did. But I do not mind repeating it, as if I were the first to discover it. (The Life of the Mind)”
― James V. Schall, SJ

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“The basis of all religions is hearsay”
― B.S. Murthy

“Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.”
― Holly Ordway

“Of the gnostic so much has been cursorily, as it were, written. We proceed now to the sequel, and must again contemplate faith; for there are some that draw the distinction, that faith has reference to the Son, and knowledge to the Spirit. But it has escaped their notice that, in order to believe truly in the Son, we must believe that He is the Son, and that He came, and how, and for what, and respecting His passion ; and we must know who is the Son of God. Now neither is knowledge without faith, nor faith without knowledge. Nor is the Father without the Son ; for the Son is with the Father. And the Son is the true teacher respecting the Father; and that we may believe in the Son, we must know the Father, with whom also is the Son. Again, in order that we may know the Father, we must believe in the Son, that it is the Son of God who teaches ; for from faith to knowledge by the Son is the Father. And the knowledge of the Son and Father, which is according to the gnostic rule—that which in reality is gnostic—is the attainment and comprehension of the truth by the truth.”
― Clement of Alexandria, Volume 12. The Writings of Clement of Alexandria

“Revelation, I argue, leads to the completion and fulfillment of political philosophy, not in any necessary or artificial way, but as an intelligible response to valid questions posed in the discipline itself. Revelation is a gift; it does not arise from human sources. It is not something that could be demanded or commanded. It is a rational gift. . . .Aquinas remains a key to the compatibility of reason and revelation. (At the Limits of Political Philosophy)”
― James V. Schall, SJ

“Firstly however, if a man really and truly envies the certainty of Catholic believers, he should apply his mind to studying how reasonable are Catholic beliefs. They may be above human reason, but they are not against it. How could they be? How could God both be the creator of our human reason and then impose on it to believe truths flouting that reason? He would be contradicting Himself. St. Thomas Aquinas in his "Summa Theologiae" is constantly showing how faith and reason are quite distinct, but in perfect harmony with one another. (letter #174)”
― Bishop Richard Williamson, Eleison Comments Volume 1

“The art and science of discipleship is the perfect combination of heart and mind, faith and reason, grace and truth.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry

“I do not understand how much persecution can be dealt with because in the end it's about just showing God's love good morals and blessings.

Know the difference between darkness and light”
― mellina

“Have faith even in the finite, my dear. Faith and science are but the hands and feet of miracles.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand.”
― Thomas Aquinas, The "Summa Theologica" of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on the Trinity and Creation, XXVII-XLIX