Sherwood Eddy Quotes

Faith is a continuation of reason.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.