Quotes About Reason

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.