Faith in Quotes: The Conclusion

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

— D. Elton Trueblood

Posted on August 3, 2011, in Quotes and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

  1. Maybe that’s correct, but I find it pretty similar to “belief without proof” if the person/thing trusted isn’t demonstrably worthy of trust…so the trust itself is irrational…I personally have faith in scientists, but I think that faith is reasonable, since, unless there’s a conspiracy, the folks I’m trusting value evidence, have often amassed tons of it before they tell me something…

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: