Quotes About Knowledge

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to teach. Yet all are called Christians, have been baptized, and enjoy the use of the Sacrament, although they know neither the Lord's Prayer, nor the Creed, nor the Ten Commandments...

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.

For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and every part of it.

Therefore the first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

This is the wonderful power of God, that He rules over all as individuals and over individuals as all. And He knows all things.

But those are truly gifts of the Holy Spirit which make drunk with the richest knowledge of the Son of God, just as when John Hus was led to martyrdom, he prayed with great and unbroken courage: "Jesus, Son of God, Thou who hast suffered for us, have mercy on me."63 This is not said without the Holy Spirit. No one else would have spoken this way unless he had been made drunk by that wine. He was one of the colts bound to the excellent vine.

Wherefore it ought to be the first concern of every Christian to lay aside all confidence in works and increasingly to strengthen faith alone and through faith to grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who suffered and rose for him, as Peter teaches in the last chapter of his first Epistle (I Pet. 5:10).

Paul is an expert at allegories. They are dangerous things. Unless a person has a thorough knowledge of Christian doctrine he had better leave allegories alone.

If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of those branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

We are old fools. The more educated and intelligent we become, the less we know and understand.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over.

Elle n'avait pas de réponse, mais, même si c'était un peu effrayant, ce n'était pas grave. Les réponses sont un frein à la croissance et à la connaissance.

În Ecclesiastul scrie «c? cel ce îÅŸi înmulÅ£eÅŸte ÅŸtiinÅ£a îÅŸi sporeÅŸte suferinÅ£a»; dar, neavând niciodat? fericirea s? merg la catehism cu ceilalÅ£i copii, nu am fost prevenit de pericolele studiului. CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sunt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.

It has led us to be obsessed by data rather than by the significance of knowledge and to be determined to prove things, rather than to experience and risk experiencing things as part of an adventure of faith, coupled with uncertainty.