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Where does "reason" stand in relation to "faith" in our relationship with God? Which one comes first? Do they contradict each other?

Mountains were moved by faith, not by reason. Reason is a tool of the intellect that can convey one's faith. Sometimes we are required to use reason to explain the faith that we embrace so dearly. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:16).
 
St. Augustine lived in eras where philosophical discourses were powerful. They were gifted and able to use the same skills for the purpose of teaching and evangelizing the Christian faith. St. Augustine, in particular, rejected the Christian faith in his youth and became accustomed to reason and rhetoric. Our Lord purposed to employ those same abilities that once caused St. Augustine to reject the Christian faith to lead him to a profound understanding of Christianity. He was intellectually well-equipped and able to utilize his energy and logic skills to teach Christianity rationally and through faith. When St. Paul the Apostle recounted his own conversion to Christianity before Festus and Agrippa, he conveyed his faith to the faithless by reason: "But he said, 'I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and reason'...Then Agrippa said to Paul, 'You almost persuade me to become a Christian'" (Acts 26:25-28).
 
Our Lord, Himself, cautioned his disciples regarding the matter of reason over faith. Although the disciples had witnessed remarkable miracles, their recall of the same miraculous events diminished once they began to rationalize. "Then Jesus said to them, 'Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.' And they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'It is because we have taken no bread.' But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, 'O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.' Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees" (Matthew 16:5-12).