“Medicine can cure; faith cannot.”
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 236
Quoted in "Reconciliation", Capuchin Franciscans, Province of Ireland https://www.capuchinfranciscans.ie/our-work/ministries/reconciliation/.
“Medicine can cure; faith cannot.”
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 236
“Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Call to the Nation
Context: Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.
“Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.”
Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) English physician and educator
Book II, p. 408.
Collected Works
“For both were faiths, and both are gone.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)
Context: Forgive me, masters of the mind!
At whose behest I long ago
So much unlearnt, so much resign'd —
I come not here to be your foe!
I seek these anchorites, not in ruth,
To curse and to deny your truth; Not as their friend, or child, I speak!
But as, on some far northern strand,
Thinking of his own Gods, a Greek
In pity and mournful awe might stand
Before some fallen Runic stone —
For both were faiths, and both are gone.
“Faith in God includes faith in those who help God.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.269
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 58).
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 238