logo

Quotes About Reasoning

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact
~ Herbert Simon
Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
~ Oswald Chambers
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.
~ Raymond Franz
We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
~ Chapman Cohen
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
~ Stephen Charnock
Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.
~ Hugh Ross
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.
~ Russell Stannard
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
~ Bill Gates
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
~ Immanuel Kant
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
~ George Tyrrell
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
~ Benjamin Hart
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
~ Daniel Dennett
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
~ Doron Zeilberger
I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.
~ Susan Jacoby
God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.
~ Gore Vidal
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
~ Albert Einstein
Wanasayansi wanasema hakuna Mungu kwa sababu hawawezi kumwona wala kumgusa. Lakini nao hawana akili kwa sababu hawawezi kuiona wala kuigusa.
~ Enock Maregesi
It is reasonable to reason with God because when you only rely on human reasoning, you will be diverted from your purpose.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
~ Haile Selassie
However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.
~ David Berlinski