Atheism Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and…

— Rodney Stark

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.

— Bill Maher

“Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own…

— William Tyndale

We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of…

— Edward Everett

We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect…

— Charles Spurgeon

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

— Hannah Arendt

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

“The motif of scholastic theology is, “We believe to understand.” The motif in mystical theology is, “We believe to experience.”

— Eric Gimour

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

— Anonymous

“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic…

— Jon Krakauer