Quotes About Reason

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin.

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

Some people need God and some people need science.

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.