Quotes about Logic

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

The problem, however, comes within the reach of possible solution, if we distinguish between sovereignty as an inherent power, and the exercise of sovereignty. God may limit the exercise of his sovereignty to make room for the free action of his creatures. It is by his sovereign decree that man is free. Without such self-limitation he could not admonish men to repent and believe. Here, again, the Calvinistic logic must either bend or break.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

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

The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as "I'm not into 'isms.

God has put enough into this world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. Faith and reason must always work together in that plausible blend.