| REASON See also: Education; Knowledge; Mind | 理性 |
| God does not except us to submit our faith to him
without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity. Augustine 上帝並沒有要我們帶著信心而不帶著理性到祂面前，只是我們十分有限的理性使得信心變得不可闕如。 |
| It is no more possible for
finite man to comprehend the infinite God than for a child to dip the ocean into a hole he
has made in the sand. Augustine 有限的人們不可能明白無限的上帝，正如同海灘上的孩子，想把海洋裝進他在海灘挖出的洞穴。 |
| No man can understand spiritual mysteries by carnal
reason. Thomas Brooks 沒有一個人能藉人們的理性律法 |
| Water cannot rise higher
than its source, neither can human reason. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 水無法高過源頭，人的理性也是如此。 |
| He that will believe only what he can fully
comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed. C. C. Colton 那些只相信自己完全瞭解的東西的人，若不是天賦異稟就是相信的東西微乎其微。 |
| Reason can never show itself
more reasonable than in ceasing to reason about things which are above reason. John Flavel 理性顯得真正合乎理性的時候就在於停止使用理性思考超越理性的事情。 |
| The faith that does not come from reason is to be
doubted, and the reason that does not lead to faith is to be feared. G. Campbell Morgan 信心若非出於理性，則堪懷疑，理性若不導致信心則令人恐懼。 |
| Nothing but faith will ever
rectify the mistakes of reason on divine things. William S. Plumer 除了信心之外沒有甚麼能夠改正使用理性思想信仰的錯謬之處。 |
| Where reason cannot wade, there faith may swim. Thomas Watson 在理性無法涉水而過的地方，信心能夠游泳而過。 |
| Reason is God's crowning
gift to man. Sophocles (495 BC - 406 BC), Antigone 理性是上帝授予人們的禮物。 |
| Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper
when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Orson Welles 人是理性的動物，但卻經常在被要求行為舉止合乎理性時變得毫不理性。 |