Quotes About Reason

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

Thy kingdom come, that Thou rule us, and not: we ourselves," for there is nothing more perilous in us than our reason and will.

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

For the world does not discern what faith is and what power faith has, such a hidden and unknown thing is faith to reason. According to the statement of Christ (cf. John 14:17), "The world cannot receive the Holy Spirit"; it neither sees nor hears nor perceives Him by any sense.

Wer ein Christ sein will, der steche seiner Vernunft die Augen aus.

Human reason can think only in terms of the Law. It mumbles: "This I have done, this I have not done." But faith looks to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, given into death for the sins of the whole world. To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

For my part, if I cannot fathom how the bread is the body of Christ, yet I will take my reason captive to the obedience of Christ [II Cor. 10:5], and clinging simply to his words, firmly believe not only that the body of Christ is in the bread, but that the bread is the body of Christ.

Reason fails to understand this, "for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." (I Cor. 2:14.) It therefore seeks righteousness in externals. However, we learn from the Word of God that there is nothing under the sun that can make us righteous before God and a new creature except Christ Jesus.

RaÅ£iunea este cea mai mare târf? a Diavolului; din fire ÅŸi prin felul de a fi, este o târf? d?un?toare; este o prostituat?, târfa desemnat? a Diavolului; târf? mâncat? de râie ÅŸi lepr?, care ar trebui c?lcat? în picioare ÅŸi distrus?, ea ÅŸi înÅ£elepciunea ei… Ar merita s? fie aruncat? în cel mai murdar loc al casei, în toalet?.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

RenunÅ£area la inteligenÅ£a veritabil? este preÅ£ul care trebuie pl?tit pentru a avea certitudini, ÅŸi este întotdeauna o cheltuial? invizibil? la banca conÅŸtiinÅ£ei noastre, în sensul ?sta, îi prefer pe cei care nu se-nv?luie în mantia raÅ£iunii ÅŸi recunosc caracterul fictiv al credinÅ£ei lor.

I have the curse of reason: I'm poor, single and depressed. For months now I've been thinking about my illness of thinking too much, and I've established with complete certainty the correlation between my unhappiness and the incontinence of my mind. Probing and pondering and overanalyzing have never given me any advantages; they've only played against me.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729–97)

She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason.

Think with your head, not your heart.' He looked

Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

Everyone stared at her, sorry for her but glad it had not happened to them. There were a few murmurs of sympathy, and a few people whispering all the reasons they thought Vilsa may have deserved what had happened. It is important to make people deserve what happens to them. If bad things can happen for no apparent reason, then bad things might happen to innocent us.

Peace will always rule the day where reason rules the mind.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.