Reasonable Faith Quotes

#1. 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?

J.F. Baldwin

#2. Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#3. Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

Bill Johnson

#4. What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Julia Cameron

#5. Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food ... If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.

Haruki Murakami

#8. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts

Markus Zusak

#9. The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.

Corrado Ghinamo

#10. By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

E. O. Wilson

#11. If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The

Ravi Zacharias

#13. Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true ... The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.

Brennan Manning

#14. God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone.

Ravi Zacharias

#15. One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.

Bre Pettis

#16. Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.

Criss Jami

#17. Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

Sam Harris

#18. God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical"

~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#19. Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Walter Kaufmann

#20. They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this - yet. They forget the yet.

Carol S. Dweck

#21. I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Simon Van Booy

#22. Holyfuckingmancandy.

Virginia Nelson

#23. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

C.S. Lewis

#25. Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed by the strongest evidence that we have, to come to the best and most reasonable conclusion that God is the cause of everything - all without ever taking even a single step of blind faith.

Lewis N. Roe

#26. We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

George W. Bush

#27. Catholics have always held that the soul is immeasurably more important than the body. Therefore, one who destroys the faith and grace that are the life of the soul is more guilty than one who merely kills the body. For this reasonable attitude there is surely no reason to apologize.

Diane Moczar

#28. But if there is hope, it lies in ordinary working people. When you put it in words it sounds reasonable: it is when you look at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it becomes an act of faith.

Tony Benn

#29. I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

Richard Branson

#30. Har-ki-doon was situated on the northeast end of the Tons River Valley in Uttaranchal, India. A stunning piece of highland at the confluence of a trio of glaciers, it displayed in every direction the magnificence of the Himalayan Mountains -

Falguni Kothari

#31. God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Ravi Zacharias

#32. Too often we seem to have the idea that submission to Scripture means that we first come to see it as reasonable and then submit to it, but submission means, in part, a willingness to bend the knee in faith to things that are not fully resolved in our mind.

James C. Wilhoit

#33. Stuff and nonsense. Nonsense and stuff and much of a muchness and nonsense all over again. We are all mad here, don't you know?

Marissa Meyer

#34. The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Richie Norton

#35. It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Margaret Atwood

#36. I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.

Mathias Rust

#37. We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.

Edward Everett

#38. We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

Greg L. Bahnsen