Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
