Accepting Quote by Ronald Knox

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

— Marilynne Robinson

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

— David Berlinski

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

— Karl Barth

“What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does…

— Austin Farrer

When God says something, the argument is over.

— R. C. Sproul

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether…

— Steve Allen

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion…

— Richard Dawkins

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

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether…

— Steve Allen

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you…

— Barney Frank

“Because modern critical thinking is corrosive of conventional religious beliefs, some Christians reject applying it to the Bible and Christianity. The result is fundamentalism…

— Marcus J. Borg

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all…

— H. L. Mencken