 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. Author: John Selden |
| Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. Author: John Chrysostom |
| Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. Author: John Chrysostom |
| Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. Author: John Bunyan |
| 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. Author: John Wesley |
| Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. Author: John Wesley |
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| Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. Author: John Calvin |
| A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. Author: John Henry Newman |
| Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. Author: John Henry Newman |
| I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. Author: Jonathan Edwards |
| Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Author: Martin Luther |
| 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. Author: Martin Luther |
