The Reason Quotes

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.