Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
Interpretation
Faith should be rooted in knowledge and understanding, not mere assumption.
This quote emphasizes that true faith is not simply an unquestioning leap into belief; rather, it requires a foundation of knowledge and understanding. To have faith, one must comprehend the reasons for their beliefs and the principles that support them, ensuring that faith is a reasoned conviction rather than blind trust.
In practice
During a motivational talk about the importance of informed beliefs.
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.
The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
Thereβs nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".
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