Quotes about Reason

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

I find a simple answer in the Bible's overarching theme that God is love. That quality, more than anything else, makes clear the reason behind all creation. Love cannot really exist without an object to receive it.

Evening precedes morning for the simple and even obvious reason that darkness preceded light. Prior to the universe, all was dark. Light needed to be created, not darkness.

But when our faith causes us to check our brains at the door, we have fallen far from the God who gave us the capacity for reason.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

if sin is Satan's rope by which the soul is bound, how can it resist till it is released from that weakness. Secondly, how could anyone who is acquainted with either reason or grace, believe that a man who is a slave to his own corruption

The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable.

I heard my pastor say once, when there were only a few of us standing around, that he hated Bill Clinton. I can understand not liking Clinton's policies, but I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. I couldn't deal with that.

Man's reason never follows the redemption route.

What is the why behind everything you do?