150 Quotes About Reasoning

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

If our brain is full of prejudice towards the truth or towards the preacher, truth will not enter it nor will it extend to our life. No wonder some believers derive no help already have they decided what they would like to read or hear.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

There need not be in religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, anything that is against reason; but never while the sun shines will we get great religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, without going beyond reason.

He that lives in the kingdom of sense, shall die in the kingdom of sorrow.

When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action. It is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things. It is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance, which have, in fact, such extensive consequences.

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.