Faith and Reason

"The demands of piety are a mystery before which man is reduced to reverence and silence.  Reverence, love, prayer, faith, go beyond the acts of shallow reasoning.  We must therefore not judge religion exclusively from the viewpoint of reason.  Religion is not within but beyond the limits of mere reason... [However] the employment of reason is indispensable to the understanding and worship of God, and religion withers without it... Without reason faith becomes blind.  Without reason we would not know how to apply the insights of faith to the concrete issues of living.  The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence.  The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith."

-Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man