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The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our knowledge, as well all others throughout immensity, are each and every one of them possessed or inhabited by some intelligent agents or other, however different their sensations or manners of receiving or communicating their ideas may be from ours, or however different from each other.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

It__ all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool.

Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis fails to become a Christian because of a lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with god.

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

Knock on the heart__ emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart from fundamental willingness to be reasonable, can guarantee that we will keep talking to one another?

...most people are almost blind and they don__ see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren__ connected and are silly, like, ____ worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.