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“It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.”

Moments Light Faith Interest Doubt Sea Ignorance Highest Connected Quitting Revelations Inquiry Humiliating

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.”

Would Be Religion Faith Belief Impossible Ignorance Built Definitions Have Faith

Book:More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

Source: More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)”

Would Be Faith Humility Ignorance Labels Height Absurdity

Author:John Calvin

“Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.”