Quotes about Reason
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
- Abraham Lincoln
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- James Madison
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
- Pope Benedict XVI
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
- Martin Luther
If you want to feel good, be rational.
- Ayn Rand
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
- CS Lewis
It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
- Hal Elrod
Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
- Lee Strobel