The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
One of the reasons so many kids bought 'Famous Monsters' was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?
