Reason Quotes - Page 26

• Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

  Lin Yutang

  Play, Characteristics, No Reason

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

  Drew Carey

  Magazines, Politics, Libertarian

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• A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Prayer, Men, Battle

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• I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, Would Be, Dare

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• Reason is also choice.

  John Milton

  Choices

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.109, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Reason is intuition's servant.

  Albert Einstein

  Intuition, Servant

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• Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

  Eric Weiner

  Heart, Quiet, Moments

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• It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Community, Redress, Broads

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• Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Feelings, Our Actions

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried, he was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there, when I needed him the most. His love was never ending. And now that he's gone there is an emptiness in my world, but not in my heart.

  Michael Jordan

  Dad, Father, Heart

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• The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

  Mark Batterson

  Scripture, Remember, Forget

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• God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, Accomplish

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• I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Religious, War, Believe

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• I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Let It Go, Way, Tomorrow

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 14, 2016

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• God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.

  Billy Graham

  Lonely, His Love, Fellowship

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• If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Quitting, Busy

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• Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

  Milan Kundera

  Fragments, Existence, Humans

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• Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  Francis Chan

  Art, Creativity, Diversity

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.18, David C Cook

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• To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

  Scot McKnight

  Memorial, Temples, Walks

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• Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Thinking, Old Love

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

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• Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
  Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
  And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
  Be not afraid
  To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Light, Soul, Cobwebs

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Progress”

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• Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sweet, People, Joy

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• I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Enlightenment, Supreme

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• People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.

  Tyrese Gibson

  People, Important, Realizing

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