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Full Idea
Be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
Gist of Idea
Always be ready to give reasons for your beliefs
Source
St Peter (21: First Epistle of Peter [c.50], 3:15)
Book Ref
'The Bible', ed/tr. the Church [Collins 1950], p.587
A Reaction
This quotation is the rational theologian's standard response to pure fideism.
| 8158 | Do not seek to know Brahman by arguments, for arguments are idle and vain [Anon (Upan)] |
| 7997 | Only by love can men see me, know me, and come to me, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
| 17593 | Always be ready to give reasons for your beliefs [Peter] |
| 6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |
| 6609 | With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther] |
| 22088 | Faith is like a dancer's leap, going up to God, but also back to earth [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
| 7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |
| 7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |
| 2919 | 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche] |
| 20269 | 'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd' [Nietzsche] |
| 7596 | Faith is not just belief in propositions, but also putting trust in them [Armstrong,K] |
| 4727 | The chief problem for fideists is other fideists who hold contrary ideas [O'Grady] |