Saint Bernard Quotes

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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

Faith is never identical with piety.

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

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

I try to act out of faith.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.