Quotes about Reason
Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
- Dinesh D'Souza
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
- St. Basil
Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.
- Karl Barth
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
- Marcus Aurelius
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
- Martin Luther
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
- Stephen Colbert
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
- Thomas a Kempis
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton