life on planet earth on Reason

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely differen...

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

We arrive at the truth not by reason alone, but also by the heart.

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 a...

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People have two reasons for doing anything—a good reason and the real reason.

True religion goes beyond making sense. It does not offend reason, it transcends reason. People do not start to see the world differently because someone has written a book giving them good reasons fo...

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

One of the gifts John Wesley left the church is the Quadrilateral. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral refers to the four ways we come to know something as true: Scripture (what the Bible teaches), tradition (...

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am ...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Reason and emotion are not separate and opposed. Reason is nestled upon emotion and dependent upon it. Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuation...

I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propos...

You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.

Perhaps the reason you feel guilty is because you are guilty. The answer to your guilt problem is not rationalization or self-justification, but forgiveness. The price of forgiveness is repentance. Wi...

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are the...

We rationalize to make life with ourselves possible in a morally challenging world. Often the motivation for rationalization, though, is quite different. In recent decades, psychologists have argued c...

O God, whose reason rules the world, who formed the starry heights above, timeless, time’s chain far forth you hurled, unmoved, gave all things power to move. Prevailed on by no outside cause to fashi...

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.

The reason we are not able to see God is the faintness of our desire.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The reason we need to have our false certainties shaken is so that we may see the possibility of better orders than we have.