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  • To those who argued that self-surrender implied a giving up of reason, they replied that "To go against Reason, is to go against God: it is the self same thing, to do that which the Reason of the Case doth require; and that which God Himself doth appoint: Reason is the Divine Governor of Man's Life; it is the very Voice of God."

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • Sun and Moon, there is most excellent speculation; but to profound [24] farther, and to contemplate a reason why His Providence hath so disposed and ordered their motions in that vast circle as to conjoyn and obscure each other, is a sweeter piece of Reason, and a diviner point of Philosophy.

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • In the causes, nature, and affections23 of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, there is most excellent speculation; but to profound24 farther, and to contemplate a reason why His Providence hath so disposed and ordered their motions in that vast circle as to conjoyn and obscure each other, is a sweeter piece of Reason, and a diviner point of Philosophy.

    The First Part: Paras 1-35 1909

  • We have seen that Plato taught that the human reason is originally in possession of fundamental and necessary ideas -- the copies of the archetypal ideas which dwell in the eternal Reason; and that these ideas are the primordial laws of thought -- that is, they are the laws under which we conceive of all objective things, and reason concerning all existence.

    Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

  • Apparently and to our human reason antagonistic, the same Reason is not incapable of comprehending how they can be in equipoise.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • The granite would have staggered his reason, even though his own experience or the testimony of others were sufficient, nay, imperative, to assure his faith: but in the case of limestone, Reason even helps Faith; nay, anticipates and leads it in, by suggesting the wonder to be previously probable.

    Probabilities : An aid to Faith Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • The granite would have staggered his reason, even though his own experience or the testimony of others were sufficient, nay, imperative, to assure his faith: but in the case of limestone, Reason even helps Faith; nay, anticipates and leads it in, by suggesting the wonder to be previously probable.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Christianity, as taught in the liturgy and homilies of our Church, though not discoverable by human reason, is yet in accordance with it; that link follows link by necessary consequence; that Religion passes out of the ken of Reason only where the eye of Reason has reached its own horizon; and that Faith is then but its continuation: even as the day softens away into the sweet twilight, and twilight, hushed and breathless, steals into the darkness.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • a mouse should stir, is cowardly after a Brutish sort; there was a man again who, by reason of disease, was afraid of a cat: and of the fools, they who are naturally destitute of Reason and live only by Sense are

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • "Part of the reason for this is that he wrote" The Age Of Reason, "which was a finely-tuned attack on organized religion.

    Elizabeth Edwards Spells Out For Wolf What's Wrong With Ann Coulter 2009

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