Great Thoughts on Growth
"Knowledge is indispensable to
Christian life and service. If we do not
use the mind that God has given us, we
condemn ourselves to spiritual
superficiality and cut ourselves off from
many of the riches of God's grace. . . .
Knowledge is given us to be used, to
lead us to higher worship, greater faith,
deeper holiness, better service."
John R. W. Stott
"I do not feel obliged to believe that
that same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has
intended us to forego their use."
Galileo Galilei
"Give the Bible to the people,
unadulterated, pure, unaltered,
unexplained, uncheapened, and then
see it work through the whole nature.
It is very difficult indeed for a man or
for a boy who knows the Scriptures
ever to get away from it. It follows
him like the memory of his mother.
It haunts him like an old song. It
reminds him like the word of an old
and revered teacher. It forms a part
of the warp and woof of his life."
Woodrow Wilson
"We do not have to give up our
reason, our intelligence, our
knowledge, our faculty to judge, nor
our emotions, our likes, our desires,
our instincts, our conscious and
unconscious aspirations, but rather to
place them all in God's hands, so that
he may direct, stimulate, fertilize,
develop, and use them."
Paul Tournier
