Inspirational Quotes on Reasoning

“They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.”

“When a doubt is propounded, learn to distinguish, and show wherein a thing holds, and wherein it doth not hold. The not distinguishing where things should be distinguished, and the not confounding, where things should be confounded, is the cause of all the mistakes in the world.”

“First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.”

“When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.”

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

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

“Reason should not undertake to comprehend the last destructions; they are ordained expressly to destroy our reason.”

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

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.”

“When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.”

“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.”

“Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey it.”

“A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can measure.”

“Prevention is the best bridle.”

“The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven and the more glorious that glory.”

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

“Eloquence is vehement simplicity.”

“Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are.”