Bases Quote by Francis Collins

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

— Francis Spufford

I don't feel like I was argued into the faith, but I feel like the evidence knocked down a succession of objections and issues…

— Lee Strobel

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

— Karl Barth

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

— Carl Sagan

When I say you don't have to be a believer, you just have to say - you have to ask the question to say…

— Paula White

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

— Sam Shoemaker

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

— Andy Murray

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

— Timothy Keller

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

— Samuel R. Delany

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

— James Harvey Robinson

An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept…

— Jim Herrick

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

— Swami Vivekananda