My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
—Charlie Chaplin
O God, how unsearchable are thy judgments or counsels! Too deep to be fathomed by our reason: and thy ways of executing those counsels not to be traced by our wisdom!
—John Wesley
O may I desire to praise God and Christ and present body and soul a reasonable service of sacrifice.
—William Wilberforce
When reason fails, the devil helps!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit Himself.
—AW Tozer
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
—Cicero
To acquire knowledge, Scripture refers man not to his own reason but to God’s revelation in all his works. Lift up your eyes, and see the one who has created all things; [lift them up] to the teaching and the testimony; otherwise, they shall perish.
—Herman Bavinck
O what reason of thankfulness have I on account of this retirement! I find that I do not, and it seems I cannot, lead a Christian life when I am abroad, and cannot spend time in devotion, Christian conversation, and serious meditation, as I should do.
—David Brainerd
You can never convict a man of sin, because that is the work of the Holy Spirit. You can reason and reason and you will fail. It is ours to preach the Word and look to the Holy Spirit to produce conviction.
—R. A. Torrey
The reason why many fail in the battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came.
—R. A. Torrey
There are more people ruined by flattery than by telling them their faults. The Holy Ghost never flatters, but convicts us of sin, and that is the reason many don’t like Him.
—D. L. Moody
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason
—Charles Darwin
The true reason why any despise *the new birth* is, because they hate *a new life*.
—John Owen
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
—Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
—Blaise Pascal
“Faith in God is a necessity of reason.”
— Charles Spurgeon
We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later and are seldom clearly manifest.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
—Voltaire
The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
—John Owen
The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
—John Owen
Sin so hardens and dulls the soul that it appears unsupportive of the plainest reason and clearest light and unmoved by things of the greatest and most immediate concern.
—Jonathan Edwards
The law can bring forth no righteousness, no obedience; it is weak to any such purpose, by reason of the flesh, and that corruption that is come on us.
—John Owen
When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.
—John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
—John Locke
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
—John Locke
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
—John Locke