Quotes about Reason

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Living as we do with a veil over our eyes, we cannot remember what it was like to be with our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in the premortal world; nor can we see with our physical eyes or with reason alone the hand of God in our lives.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573).

Christianity, for some, is neither faith nor reason—just reactive tribalism hiding behind the skirts of Mother Church.

Solomon noted that envy is the reason why most people overwork!

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Only an unwillingness to be open and honest can keep us from the conclusion that both reason and experience tell us that what the Bible says about us is true. We are without excuse if we remain in denial.

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.

If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.