People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying Godโs guidance to fit your own needs.
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.
The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?
Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason.
I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.
ุนูุฏู ุง ูุชุจูู ุนุฏุฏ ูุงู ู ู ุงููุงุณ ููุณ ุงูุงุนุชูุงุฏุ ูุชุญูู ูุฐุง ุงูุงุนุชูุงุฏ ุชููุงุฆููุง ุฅูู ุญูููุฉ ูุง ูู ูู ุฏุญุถูุง ูู ูุธุฑ ุงููุซูุฑ ู ู ุงููุงุณุ ุญุชู ูู ูุงู ูุฐุง ุงูุงุนุชูุงุฏ ูุง ูู ุช ููุญูููุฉ ุจุตูุฉ
Belief in God, messiah or some spiritual con-artist is optional, but belief in the self is imperative.
Technology won't save this world - reason won't save this world - faith won't save this world โ only responsibility will.
It insists on our absolute belief in unverifiable creeds and, in return, promises a reward that can only be verified after we cease to exist. By demanding the unconditional renunciation of our reason in this way, bad-faith prevents us from living an authentic, intentional life: it anaesthetises our integrity.
The person of faith cannot accept reason as the arbiter of truth without giving up on faith...
Yet do I believe that all this is true, which indeed my reason would persuade me to be false; and this I think is no vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to reason, and against the argument of our proper senses.
The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.