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
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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