Quotes about Reason

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

An excuse is a reason stuffed with a lie. The problem with excuses is that as long as we hold on to them, we will not see change.

didn't ignore the facts), considered (thought about briefly) the utter impotence of his own body and the barrenness of Sarah's dead womb. Although all human reason for hope was gone, he hoped in faith. Abraham was very positive about a very negative situation!

Our strength to conquer is found in pressing forward with God. The Lord told Jeremiah in the final verse of chapter one that the people would fight against him, but they would not prevail for one simple reason: "I am with you.

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

I still have scars that need healing, wounds that may never completely go away. And I still have a lot of unanswered questions about the suffering I've seen. But at least I'm open and willing to have God show me the way. I listen closely to what he has to tell me. I know he helped me stay alive for a reason, and each day I strive to live out that reason.

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.