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
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
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