If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.