Quotes About Reason

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

But faith, as we pointed out, is not primarily the acceptance of biblical beliefs because they have been revealed outside of and overriding human reason and good sense, and so in that sense are imposed on us without proper understanding.

How cruel is reason! How sharper than a serpent's tooth is meditation! How subtle is the lack of reason!

For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind.

Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

donald justice: i often wonder about the others, where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence, was there some reason to go away?

for a purpose without reason

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn't that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The voice of conscience, which is our internal moral judge, can serve as a 'guiding thread' (Leitfaden) in matters of doubt.