Careful Quote by Alphonsus Liguori

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

— Pope Benedict XVI

All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel…

— Orson Pratt

“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now seemed more…

— Alec Ryrie

“People religious enough to want to live in a world dominated by faith were also religious enough to guard their souls against doctrinal error,…

— Walter Jon Williams

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith…

— Boyd K. Packer

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation. And the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were…

— Madame de Stael

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of…

— George Santayana

“the church has allowed itself to become dangerously polarized into two camps: politicized and privatized views of faith. The problem is, neither view has…

— Charles W. Colson

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude.…

— Adolf Hitler