Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Knowledge – Understanding
Put it into practice – Thomas Boston
Whatever you learn from the word, labor to put it in practice. … No wonder they get little insight into the Bible who make no conscience of practicing what they know. But while the stream runs into a holy life, the fountain will be the more free.
– Thomas Boston –
The best way to learn truth – John Bunyan
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
– John Bunyan –
Study Him More – George Whitefield
Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.
– George Whitefield –
Read the Bible first – JC Ryle
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
– JC Ryle –
Satan’s greatest weapon – AW Tozer
Satan’s greatest weapon is man’s ignorance of God’s Word.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
Dying of Starvation – AW Tozer
A man can die of starvation knowing all about bread, and a man can remain spiritually dead while knowing all the historic facts of Christianity.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
The importance of thinking – Ichabod Spencer
Thoughtlessness is the common origin of unconcern. We do a far better office for men when we lead them to think, than when we think for them. A man’s own thoughts are the most powerful of all preaching. The Holy Spirit operates very much by leading men to reflection—to employ their own mind. I should hesitate to interrupt the religious reflections of any man in the world, by the most important thing I could say to him. If I am sure he will think, I will consent to be still. But men are prone to be thoughtless, and we must speak to them to lead them to reflection.
– Ichabod Spencer –
from A Pastor’s Sketches
Highest form of thought – GK Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– GK Chesterton –