Human reason Quote by Nancy Pearcey

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what…

— Rita Mae Brown

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

— Alfred North Whitehead

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

— Timothy Keller

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at…

— Anonymous

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

— Nancy Pearcey

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything…

— Timothy Keller

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the…

— Lyman Abbott

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Idolatry is worshiping something other than the true God in the true way.

— John Macarthur

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

— Nancy Pearcey