The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.
What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable. ' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.
We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out. "
There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.
There's no reason to be doing comedy during the day in a hot tent. I don't know why anyone thinks it's a good idea, but festival after festival keeps doing it. I did see some of the other comedians struggling.
There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone, it should be accepted as but another example of human variability.
I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.
Don't worry about those who talk behind your back, they're behind you for a reason.