Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?
Interpretation
Prayer and reflection are often more valuable for understanding than academic study alone.
This quote emphasizes the importance of spiritual practice and personal introspection over mere intellectual pursuits. It suggests that time spent in prayer or meditation can lead to a deeper and more meaningful connection with the divine and the truths of existence, surpassing the knowledge gained through extensive scholarly study.
In practice
During a church service, sharing this quote to highlight the importance of prayer.
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.
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