#reasoning

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel

By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh. ↗

— Hector Avalos

#bible #christianity #christianity-and-homosexuality #god #homophobia

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#about #information #inside #man #powers

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#compassion #discipline #example #father #honesty

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#argument #believe #chinese #confront #course

Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#duna #evangelicalism #faith #faith-reason #mis

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning