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
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
I don't believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I've started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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