Quotes about Reason
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
- William James
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
- Carol Burnett
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
- Charles Hodge
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
- Thomas Merton
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
- Francis Collins
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
- Albert Camus
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
- CS Lewis
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
- Martin Luther
Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
- Martin Luther
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
- Timothy Keller
Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
- RC Sproul