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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.
When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
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