REASON

REASON - 1

“Let your reasonableness become known to all men.  The Lord is near.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 4:5 – The BIBLE

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. – Helen Keller

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. – Albert Camus (French Philosopher)

He is so narrow-minded that if he fell on a pin, it would blind him in both eyes. – Fred Allen

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken - (American journalist)

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. – Voltaire

Civilization is the making of a civil person. – John Ruskin - (English writer) (Aus

You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view. – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius

Never stand between a dog and a fire hydrant. – John Peers (Aust. tennis player)

“If the science of global warming is a slam dunk, why are CRU researchers keen on hiding the research?” – Jonah Goldberg – USA Today

If you’re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there. – Will Rogers

Humor is reason gone mad. – Groucho Marx

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. – Plato

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. – Yogi Berra

Adversity is the first path to truth. – Mohandas Gandhi

Whoever sets himself up as a Judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein

If we silence opinion, we may be silencing the truth. – John Stuart Mill - (Member of Parliament)

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln

You see things and you say, “Why?”  But I dream things that never were, and I say, “Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw

REASON - 2

“And you should continue to be made new in your dominant mental attitude, and you should put on the new personality that was created according to God’s will in true righteousness and loyalty.” – Apostle Paul – Eph. 4:23,24 – The BIBLE

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wished we didn’t. – Erica Jong - (Writer)

You are only young once but you can be immature for a lifetime. – Gary Pulliam

If God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. – Voltaire

A national sales tax would collect revenue from citizens, aliens, illegals and tourists equally.  If you spend money in the new nation, you pay the sales tax. – Russell D. Longmire – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION                                  

There is no harm in repeating a good thing. – Plato

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager. – P. J.  O’Rourke (American satirist)                                          

The superior man is modest in his speech but decisive in his actions. – Confucius

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln           

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff. – Frank Zappa

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work.  – Henry Ford                                

Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton

Science is not only compliant with spirituality—it’s a profound source of spirituality. – Carl Sagan                          

Stress is an ignorant state.  It believes everything is an emergency. – Natalie Goldberg                  

If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton

To be angry is easy, but to be angry with the right man and at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. – Aristotle

Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things. – George Carlin

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat. – Martin Luther King Jr.      

Commonly held opinions are not held rationally.  They are prejudiced until we are forced to defend them. – John Stuart Mill

REASON - 3

“Therefore, let those of us that are mature be of this mental attitude, and if you are mentally inclined otherwise in any respect, God will reveal the above attitude to you.  At any rate, to the extent we have made progress, let us go on walking orderly in this same course.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 3:15,16 – The BIBLE

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – S. A. Kierkegaard - (Danish theologian / philosopher)                

Three things that children must know—who’s the boss, what the rules are, and who is going to enforce them. – Lew Powers - (19th century politician / business)

When we see a painting, we accept it as evidence that a painter exists.  When we read a book, we accept that an author exists.  When we see a house, we accept it that a builder exists.  When we see a traffic light, we know that a law-making body exists.  All those things were made with a purpose by those who made them.  And while we may not understand everything about the people who designed them, we do not doubt that the people exist. – WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? – 1993

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire

A wrong opinion may contain part of the truth we seek. – John Stuart Mill

It’s no so much that poverty breeds crime—crime breeds poverty! – Someone real smart 

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato                 

There are two ways to slide easily through life—to believe everything, or to doubt everything.  Both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski - (Polish / American scholar)

If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con,’ what is the opposite of progress? – Paul Harvey

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. – Carl Sagan

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  – Lao Tzu

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. – Unknown

REASON - 4

“Therefore, because I appeal by the compassions of God, brothers, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, a sacred service with your power of reason.” – Apostle Paul – Rom 12:1 – The BIBLE

Wise men speak because they have something to say—fools because they have to say something. – Plato

Faith consists of believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire

You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on

We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.  We are cleaning up the air, but polluted the soul.  We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.  We write more, but learn less.  We plan more, but accomplish less.  We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait.  We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time—pills or stairs. – Joan Welsh - (American politician)

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. – John Jensen - (Danish football manager)                                                    

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true design. – Denis Diderot - (French philosopher)       

 “A government is good when those near are happy and those far off are attracted.” – Confucius – ANELECTS – (XIII:16)

The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship to fly to the moon, and we can time the flight with the precision of a fraction of a second.  These laws must have been set by somebody. – Wehrner von Braun    

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are. – Anais Nin

Unless commonly held opinions are forced to be defended from time to time, they lose their vitality. – John Stuart Mill

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle (Scottish essayist)

There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes - (20th century poet and critic)

“What shall we say of those who, notwithstanding, ignore the abundant evidence in the authenticity of the Holy Scriptures?  If still unconvinced, surely we have reason to conclude that it is the heart rather than the head which is at fault—that they do not wish to believe that which humbles their pride, and will force them to lead different lives.” – S. Austin Allibone – THE UNION BIBLE COMPANION

REASON - 5

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Sometimes we are judged by our good intentions, but we are really judged by our last bad act. – Michael Josephson - (U. S. former law professor)