Logic

I like things that make sense. This is why I've always like math. But, this little quirk of mine has often got in the way of my faith. Sometimes, I just want to plug in the numbers and have the right answer pop out. God doesn't always work that way and I struggle with not being frustrated with that. That being said, here's a great quote on the subject.

Logic may be viewed, perhaps, as a machine which is designed, at best, to be such that when we feed into it certain data and turn the logic crank, we inevitably get certain conclusions out the other end. Logic is designed to give inevitably true results starting from known true -- or assumed-to-be-true—premises. Logic is a wonderful tool when we want only logical conclusions. We should not reject such a machine merely because it is not equipped to handle all of reality. The scientist who commits himself to use a logic machine is doing wisely, qua scientist, for use on data of science. But if he feeds into that machine convictions that there is not God, or ignores God because He is not in his corpus of data, and then draws from his logic the conclusion that God does not exist, his conclusion is irrelevant. Logic is a tool; it should not be made into a religion.
--Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2001), With Heart and Mind [1962]