“The ultimate purpose of reason is to bring us to the place where we can see that there is a limit to reason.” — Blaise Pascal

“We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterward we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.” — St. Thomas Aquinas

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” — St. Augustine

“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” — St. Augustine

“The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“For our part, we find it far more easy to believe that the Lord made us than that we were developed by a long chain of natural selections from floating atoms which fashioned themselves.” — C.H. Spurgeon

“As the flower in the garden stretches toward the light of the sun, so there is in the child a mysterious inclination toward the eternal light. Have you ever noticed this mysterious thing that when you tell the smallest child about God, [he or she] never asks with strangeness and wonder, ‘What or who is God – I have never seen Him,’ but listens with shining face to the words as though they soft loving sounds from the land of home. Or when you teach a child to fold [his or her] little hands in prayer that [he or she] does this as though it were a matter of course, as though [it was] opening for [the child] that world of which [he or she] had been dreaming with longing and anticipation. Or tell them, these little ones, the stories of the Savior, show them the pictures with scenes and personages of the Bible – how their pure eyes shine, how their little hearts beat.” — R.C.H. Lenski

“But someone will say, ‘Didn’t Jesus say that, to be saved, you have to be as a little child?’ Of course he did. But did you ever see a little child who didn’t ask questions? People who use this argument must never have listened to a little child or been one. My four children gave me a harder time with their endless flow of questions than university people ever have… What Jesus was talking about is that the little child, when he has an adequate answer, accepts the answer. He has the simplicity of not having a built-in grid whereby, regardless of the validity of the answer, he rejects it.” — Francis Schaeffer

“These are His ways, unfathomable and incomprehensible to us. It is for us to submit ourselves completely to His holy will. There are mysteries that the human mind will never fathom here on earth; eternity will reveal them.” — St. Maria Faustina Kowalska

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” — St. Augustine

“Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing.” — St. Joan of Arc.

“In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” — Blaise Pascal

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” — C. S. Lewis

“Faith is like a bright ray of sunlight. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.” — St. Francis de Sales

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” — Voltaire

“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” — C.S. Lewis

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.” — A.W. Tozer

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” — St. Thomas Aquinas

“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” — Blaise Pascal

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.” — H. C. Bailey