Quotes about Logic

The ordered patterns in nature are not logically necessary. They are contingent on God's will.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

A mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence.

A skeptic once said to me, 'I don't believe the Bible because it has miracles.' I said, 'Name one.' He said, 'Turning water into wine. Do you believe that?' I said, 'Yeah, it happens all the time.' He said, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Well, rain goes through the grapevine up into the grape, and the grape turns into wine. All Jesus did was speed it up a little bit.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

In the biblical view the issue is not modern versus postmodern. Both these views are partly right, and both are finally wrong. Nor is it rational argument versus story, or reason versus imagination. In fact it is not either-or at all. The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

As Francis Schaeffer pointed out (and his whole apologetics turned on this point), "The more logical a non-Christian is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; and the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions."41 There

The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.