Quotes about Reason

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

The Deist, therefore, who looks for Life and Salvation through the Use of his Reason, acts contrary to the whole Nature of every Thing that he sees and knows of himself and of the Nature and State of this World.

To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Faith is reason at rest in God.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

The reason for our loving God is God.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.