Quotes about Rationality

Reason is the enemy of faith.

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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

We can't get our minds around God. I don't think the Christian faith is fundamentally rational, by which I mean it cannot be captured fully by our rational faculties—and in fact, more often than not, confounds them. A God who can be comfortably captured in our minds, with little else for us to find out apart from an occasional adjustment, is no God at all. Expecting faith in God to be rational is often more the problem than the solution.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

If it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.