But it is as foolish to reject the senses because they sometimes seem to deceive us as it is to reject mathematics because we sometimes make mistakes in our checkbooks.
Every culture agrees, in general terms, that good is to be done and evil avoided.
Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.
God endowed every human being with freedom, and we are always free to choose unbelief. Such a choice is a sad use of freedom. It’s like a railroad train jumping the tracks in order to be free of them, and then being unable ever to move again.
If we did not have the freedom to say no to God, we could not truly love Him.
In the real world, in the everyday lives of billions of believers--not least of them scientists—faith and reason coexist without contradiction.
It’s all well and good to say that reality exists only in one’s mind, but those who believe it should still look both ways before crossing the street.
Only theology has as its essential subject matter the infinite, the transcendent, and the eternal. The subject might exhaust our inner resources, but we can never exhaust its inner riches.
The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable, and God has willed them to be knowable, even in the absence of strong emotion or apparent miracles.
The natural law is a beautiful reality, an empirically verifiable fact of creation. Together with natural theology, it is accessible to everyone as a kind of ‘natural religion.’
Through most of history, most sane people affirmed the existence of some divinity.
When 'the two become one' in the covenant of marriage, the 'one' they become is so real that nine months later they might have to give it a name! The child embodies their covenant oneness.