Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
– Desiderius Erasmus –
(1466-1536 AD)
Knowledge – Understanding
Everyone Must Have the Bible – William Tyndale
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.
– William Tyndale –
Therefore Let Us Pass Unto … – Clement of Alexandria
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to [godliness].
– Clement of Alexandria –
The Life of Another World – Richard Sibbes
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
– Richard Sibbes –
Learn to Pray, Pray to Learn – Leonard Ravenhill
We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The Theologian Devil – AW Tozer
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
– AW Tozer –
If You Want to Understand Christianity – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If you want to understand Christianity, do not shut your Bible—open it, read it!
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
We Should Never be Afraid – John Bunyan
If this God be our God; or if our God be such a God, and could we but attain to that knowledge of the breath, and length, and depth, and height that is in him, as the apostle here prays, and desires we may, we should never be afraid of anything we shall meet with, or that shall assault us in this world.
– John Bunyan –
from All Loves Excelling, 39
Knowledge Without Repentance – Thomas Watson
Some bless themselves that they have a stock of knowledge, but what is knowledge good for without repentance? It is better to mortify one sin than to understand all mysteries.
– Thomas Watson –