Top Ten Quotes About Faith & Reason

Is "faith" in the biblical sense, blind?  If you listen to most people you would think it was!  In the popular vernacular "faith" is little more than a wild stab in the dark. It is belief without evidence...  And while this understanding of "faith" might be true for any number of the world's religions, it is certainly not true for Christianity.  Christianity has never been about belief apart from reason. If it were do you think God would have given His people a 1,500 page book comprised almost entirely of objective truth claims?  It's highly unlikely.

My prayer is that the following quotations will help you combat the notion that "faith" (in the christian sense) is belief without evidence.  

Dunce: The popular caricature of so-called "persons of faith"

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Faith & Reason: Top Ten Quotes

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10.  "Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition."
​-A.A. Hodge

9.  "It is not a very robust faith which in order to survive must distort or ignore the facts." 
-Elisabeth Elliot

8.  "The faith that does not come from reason is to be doubted, and the reason that does not lead to faith is to be feared."
-G. Campbell Morgan

7.  "True faith and saving knowledge go together."
-George Swinnock

6.  "Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence."
-John Lennox

5.  "Reason is itself a matter of faith.  It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all."
​-G.K. Chesterton

4.  "God does not expect us to submit our faith to Him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."
- St. Augustine 

3.  "Faith is knowledge passing into conviction, and it is conviction passing into confidence."
- John Murray

2.  "Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator.  It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second."
-John Lennox

1.  "The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust Him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith."
-J. Gresham Machen