Divine Reason Quotes

#1. When we are unable to change an event that has already been written in the stars, we are always presented the opportunity to surrender to the heart and find a new pathway to peace. Understanding Divine Reason allows us to honor God's Divine Plan.

Molly Friedenfeld

#2. Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil!

G.I. Gurdjieff

#3. The more man distinguishes himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as the subject, as an "I" to whom the world is an object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the spirit of God, and to regard his reason as Divine Reason.

Emil Brunner

#4. Exactly the part he ought not to assert
himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt
the Divine Reason.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Seneca The Younger

#6. If faith is the first step or principle of the gospel and is eliminated, what happens to the gospel plan? The very foundation will crumble. I submit that there is a divine reason why all things cannot be proven by concrete evidence. ("Faith - The First Step," Ensign, May 1975, 37)

Howard W. Hunter

#7. Providence which could be spoken of, almost according to choice or context, under a variety of names or descriptions including the divine reason, creative reason, nature,

Seneca.

#8. I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Mama parted with these Divine Secrets because I asked her to, Sidda thought. the reason I feel like crying, Sidda realized, is not just because this scrapbook is vulnerable, but because Mama, whether she knows it or not, has made herself so vulnerable to me.

Rebecca Wells

#10. The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

John Stott

#11. The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

Plato

#12. Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.

Jennifer Skiff

#13. Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

Voltaire

#14. The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#15. A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

Adoniram Judson

#16. There is no reason to learn divine truths if we do not apply them in our hearts and minds, live them out daily, and defend them in the public square when we are given the opportunity to glorify God in so doing.

James R. White

#17. Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Thomas Aquinas

#18. P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#19. When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

Thomas Ken

#20. Each blade of grass, each little bug, ant, golden bee, knows its way amazingly; being without reason, they witness to the divine mystery, they ceaselessly enact it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.

John Climacus

#22. You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're aninfinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. For that reason, you must avoid being attached to it in any way.

Wayne Dyer

#23. I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

Ronald Reagan

#24. The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.

Jakob Bohme

#25. Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Martin Luther

#26. The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

Michel De Montaigne

#27. Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard Of Saint Victor

#28. God didn't create us with such a huge power of thought and a divine capacity for reason in order for us not to use them,

Hamlet Shakespeare

#29. To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.

Steven M. Cahn

#30. Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Ann Coulter

#31. Has the world become so topsy-turvy that a living creature, whom the gift of reason makes divine, believes that his glory lies solely in possession of lifeless goods?

Boethius

#32. There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.

Dee Wallace

#33. Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

Ram Dass

#34. The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Benjamin Franklin

#35. I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#36. I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art.

Michael Jackson

#37. You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#38. Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

John Chrysostom

#39. Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Albert Pike

#40. At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Alexander Pope

#41. Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that he rules.

Thomm Quackenbush

#42. We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility in other people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#43. 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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#44. This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is ... just do it.

Jon Anderson

#45. Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

#46. But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind.

W.A. Hoffman

#47. Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#48. There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

Jaggi Vasudev

#49. Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.

Rodney Stark

#50. Give me a reason to push my Dislike button.

Andrew Barger

#51. Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Basil Hume

#52. What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

Thomas Paine

#53. There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover.

Thomas Browne

#54. Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

Margaret Atwood

#55. God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

John Dryden

#56. We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

Saint John Chrysostom

#57. Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

Charles Stanley

#58. Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things.

David Hume

#59. There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.

Peter Kreeft

#60. Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

Iyanla Vanzant