Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“How often the intents of the heart are utterly pure and yet the thoughts in the head are confused.”

“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.”

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.”

“These glorious things - words - are man's right alone. Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.”

“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.”

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

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

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

“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”

“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”

“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world.”

“When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.”

“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”

“If you are not thinking right, if your mind is not being renewed, if you are not God and His Word properly, it will show up in your emotional life.”

“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”

“Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.”

“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”

“How dangerous a master human emotion is!”

“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.”