Quotes about Reason

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God to be a direct perception of God's existence, one unmediated by reason, by revelation, by society, or by psychological need.

Removed the "God-given" from this conception and made "reason" the sole criterion for truth.

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.