I said, “This is the Tree of Faith.” I said, “A man has knowledge which is by five senses.” I said, “He’s done a great job of it.” But I said, “you know what’s the matter with you fellows, with all your education.” I said, “I’m not trying to support my ignorance now”; said, “we use crutches of this,” but I said, “you fellows climb up this tree here as far as knowledge will go, and you’ll reason out with your own minds, then when you get so high, you can’t get no farther, and you run out this way and you run out that way, then you say ‘bosh with it all.’” I said, “When you get as high as you can on knowledge, now that tree is all right,” I said, “as long as you get as high as you can on that, from then on, believe.” I said, “That’s—that’s what you have to do. After you can’t figure it out any longer, then believe. That’s the time to believe when you can’t figure it out. That’s when it just comes by faith.” See?

Faith in the Son of God, 1952-07-15, Hammond, IN, §9