The Reason Quotes

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.

Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.

I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

Love has reasons that reason knows not.