Faith And Reason

Parati semper ad satisfactionem omni poscenti vos rationem... Duobus modis de spe et fide nostra rationem poscentibus reddere debemus, ut et justas spei ac fidei nostrae causas omnibus intimemus sive fideliter sive infideliter quaerentibus, et ipsam fidei ac spei nostrae professionem illibatam semper teneamus, etiam inter pressuras adversantium, ostendentes per patientiam quam rationabiliter eam servandam didicerimus, pro cujus amore nec adversa pati nec mortem subire formidemus. Sancta Beda, In Primam Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput III Source: Migne PL 93.57a-b

Always be prepared to give satisfactory reason to all who question you... 1 In two ways we should give reason for our faith and hope to those who question us, that we make known the just causes of our hope and faith, whether the questioners be of the faithful or the faithless, and the same profession of our faith and hope we should hold to unshakably even amid adverse pressures, demonstrating by endurance how reasonably we have learned to guard it, for the love of it fearing neither to suffer, nor to undergo death. Saint Bede, from the Commentary on the First Letter of Peter, Chap 3 1 1 Pet 3.15