Command Quote by Thomas Aquinas Download Open image “To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.” — Thomas Aquinas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Command God Reason
“It is reasonable to reason with God because when you only rely on human reasoning, you will be diverted from your purpose.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding. — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image