| Quotation 1 : | IGNORANCE
"Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it , God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow f" |
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| Quotation 2 : | IGNORANCE
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human." |
| Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Quotation 3 : | IGNORANCE
"Indeed, I disagree very much with those who are unwilling that Holy Scripture, translated into the vulgar tongue, be read by the uneducated, as if Christ taught such intricate doctrines that they could scarcely be understood by very few theologians, or as" |
| Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Quotation 4 : | IGNORANCE
"Involuntary ignorance is not charged against you as a fault; but your fault is this---you neglect to inquire into the things you are ignorant of." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 5 : | IGNORANCE
"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 6 : | IGNORANCE
"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 7 : | IGNORANCE
"If I am walking along the street with a very disfiguring hole in the back of my dress, of which I am in ignorance, it is certainly a very great comfort to me to have a kind friend who will tell me of it. And similarly it is indeed a comfort to know that t" |
| Hannah Whitall Smith |
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| Quotation 8 : | IGNORANCE
"I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to "raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then, making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge int" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 9 : | IGNORANCE
"Many men would be religious if they knew where to begin; many would be more religious if they were sure where it would end. It is not indifference that keeps some men from God, but ignorance. "Good Master, what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?" is still" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 10 : | IGNORANCE
"Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down." |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 11 : | IGNORANCE
"It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 12 : | IGNORANCE
"In dwelling on divine mysteries, keep thy heart humble, thy thoughts reverent, thy soul holy. Let not philosophy be ashamed to be confuted, nor logic to be confounded, nor reason to be surpassed. What thou canst not prove, approve; what thou canst not com" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 13 : | IGNORANCE
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." |
| Francis of Assisi |
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| Quotation 14 : | IGNORANCE
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 15 : | IGNORANCE
"There is no accounting for the ignorance of unbelief, as any minister of Christ knows by painful experience." |
| Henry Alford |
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| Quotation 16 : | IGNORANCE
"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge." |
| Arnold Glasow |
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| Quotation 17 : | IGNORANCE
"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 18 : | IGNORANCE
"Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance." |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 19 : | IGNORANCE
"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 20 : | IGNORANCE
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Quotation 21 : | IGNORANCE
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 22 : | IGNORANCE
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Quotation 23 : | IGNORANCE
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." |
| Confucius |
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| Quotation 24 : | IGNORANCE
"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure." |
| Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 25 : | IGNORANCE
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." |
| Maya Angelou |
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| Quotation 26 : | IGNORANCE
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." |
| Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 27 : | IGNORANCE
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." |
| Wayne Dyer |
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| Quotation 28 : | IGNORANCE
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." |
| Thomas Sowell |
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| Quotation 29 : | IGNORANCE
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 30 : | IGNORANCE
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Quotation 31 : | IGNORANCE
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Quotation 32 : | IGNORANCE
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors." |
| Maya Angelou |
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| Quotation 33 : | IGNORANCE
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Quotation 34 : | IGNORANCE
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 35 : | IGNORANCE
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." |
| John F. Kennedy |
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| Quotation 36 : | IGNORANCE
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 37 : | IGNORANCE
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Quotation 38 : | IGNORANCE
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." |
| Frederick Douglass |
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| Quotation 39 : | IGNORANCE
"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders." |
| Maya Angelou |
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| Quotation 40 : | KNOWLEDGE
"When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge." |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 41 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Gradual growth in grace, growth in knowledge, growth in faith, growth in love, growth in holiness, growth in humility, growth in spiritual-mindedness - all this I see clearly taught and urged in Scripture, and clearly exemplified in the lives of many of G" |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 42 : | KNOWLEDGE
"I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and th" |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 43 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledg" |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 44 : | KNOWLEDGE
"What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself." |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 45 : | KNOWLEDGE
"We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us a" |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 46 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Saviour." |
| James H. Aughey |
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| Quotation 47 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The great comprehensive truths written in letters of living light on every page of our history are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor" |
| James H. Aughey |
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| Quotation 48 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 49 : | KNOWLEDGE
"It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 50 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. For so have I heard, that all the noises and prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs and toads, are hushed and appeased upon the bringing upon them the light of a candle" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 51 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Zeal without knowledge is like a mettled horse without eyes, or like a sword in a madman's hand; and there is no knowledge where there is not the word: for if they reject the word of the Lord, and act not by that, 'What wisdom is in them?' saith the proph" |
| John Bunyan |
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| Quotation 52 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Faith...is a steady and certain knowledge of the Divine benevolence towards us, which being founded on the truth of the gratuitous promise in Christ, is both revealed to our minds, and confirmed to our hearts, by the Holy Spirit." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 53 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Godly character is not the result of good intentions, wishful thinking, some mystical "zap," or even sheer Bible knowledge. It's developed through the self-disciplined application of God's Word at a very basic level, enabled and empowered by God's Spirit." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 54 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even contrary to historical fact or objective divine revelation." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 55 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Someone has defined knowledge as "the process of passing from the unconscious state of ignorance to the conscious state of ignorance." Ignorance does not know that it does not know. True knowledge does not know and knows it." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 56 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Sometimes zeal is less than righteous. Zeal apart from knowledge can be damning. Zeal without wisdom is dangerous. Zeal mixed with insensitivity is often cruel. Whenever zeal disintegrates into uncontrolled passion, it can be deadly." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 57 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 58 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Some of us who have preached the Word for years, and have been the means of working faith in others and of establishing them in the knowledge of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible, have nevertheless been the subjects of the most fearful and violent do" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 59 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Those children who are of sufficient years to sin and be saved by faith have to listen to the gospel and receive it by faith. And they can do this, God the Holy Spirit helping them. There is no doubt about it, because great numbers have done it. I will no" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 60 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world." |
| Chuck Colson |
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| Quotation 61 : | KNOWLEDGE
"There is no knowledge like that of a man who knows he is saved, who can look up and see his "title clear to mansions in the skies."" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 62 : | KNOWLEDGE
"What can botanists tell you of the lily of the valley? You must study this book for that. What can geologists tell you of the Rock of Ages, or mere astronomers about the Bright Morning Star? In those pages we find all knowledge unto salvation; here we rea" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 63 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 64 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the" |
| David F. Wells |
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| Quotation 65 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." |
| Frederick Buechner |
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| Quotation 66 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The surest method of arriving at a knowledge of God's eternal purposes about us is to be found in the right use of the present moment. God's will does not come to us in the whole, but in fragments, and generally in small fragments. It is our business to p" |
| Frederick W. Faber |
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| Quotation 67 : | KNOWLEDGE
"To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waite" |
| G. Campbell Morgan |
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| Quotation 68 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 69 : | KNOWLEDGE
"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge." |
| George Herbert |
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| Quotation 70 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace." |
| George Herbert |
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| Quotation 71 : | KNOWLEDGE
"God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor. God knows how and how much, and where and when. Man is his brother's keeper, and must keep him according to his knowledge." |
| George Macdonald |
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| Quotation 72 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is." |
| George Mueller |
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| Quotation 73 : | KNOWLEDGE
"When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And" |
| George Washington Carver |
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| Quotation 74 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The Reign of Law has gradually crept into every department of Nature, transforming knowledge everywhere into Science. The process goes on, and Nature slowly appears to us as one great unity, until the borders of the Spiritual World are reached." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 75 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 76 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 77 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 78 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 79 : | KNOWLEDGE
"I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to "raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then, making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge int" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 80 : | KNOWLEDGE
"I say that man believes in a God, who feels himself in the presence of a Power which is not himself, and is immeasurably above himself, a Power in the contemplation of which he is absorbed, in the knowledge of which he finds safety and happiness." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 81 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 82 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 83 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be soug" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 84 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 85 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The Psalms are selected by the Christian from the whole Bible, as they were by the Jew from the books in his possession - the Old Testament ... nor will there ever be in the world such an advance in religious light, experience, and knowledge, that they wi" |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 86 : | KNOWLEDGE
"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge." |
| Arnold Glasow |
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| Quotation 87 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us." |
| Howard Crosby |
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| Quotation 88 : | KNOWLEDGE
"In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop h" |
| John Wycliffe |
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| Quotation 89 : | KNOWLEDGE
"I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them." |
| Keith Green |
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| Quotation 90 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall." |
| Francis Bacon |
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| Quotation 91 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within." |
| Ralph Cudworth |
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| Quotation 92 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God." |
| Ralph Cudworth |
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| Quotation 93 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true." |
| Ralph Cudworth |
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| Quotation 94 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves." |
| Bernard of Clairvaux |
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| Quotation 95 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The one is addressed generally to all intelligent creatures, and is therefore accessible to all men; the other is addressed to a special class of sinners, to whom God would make known His salvation. The one has in view to meet and supply the natural need" |
| B.B. Warfield |
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| Quotation 96 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 97 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God." |
| Charles Hodge |
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| Quotation 98 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 99 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Wisdom in scripture is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God's world and the knack of fitting oneself into it." |
| Cornelius Plantinga |
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| Quotation 100 : | KNOWLEDGE
"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 101 : | KNOWLEDGE
"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 102 : | KNOWLEDGE
"To be able to look into God's face, and know with the knowledge of faith that there is nothing between the soul and Him, is to experience the fullest peace the soul can know. Whatever else pardon may be, it is above all things admission into full fellowsh" |
| Charles H. Brent |
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| Quotation 103 : | KNOWLEDGE
"For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 104 : | KNOWLEDGE
"In many things a comprehensive survey of a subject is the shortest way of getting at a precise knowledge of a particular division of it." |
| Charles Hodge |
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| Quotation 105 : | KNOWLEDGE
"He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found." |
| A.A. Hodge |
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| Quotation 106 : | KNOWLEDGE
"The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives." |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 107 : | PROPHETS
"There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion." |
| Cat Stevens |
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| Quotation 108 : | PROPHETS
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence." |
| Paul Simon |
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| Quotation 109 : | PROPHETS
"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt." |
| Maimonides |
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| Quotation 110 : | PROPHETS
"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us." |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 111 : | PROPHETS
"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed." |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Quotation 112 : | PROPHETS
"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets." |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Quotation 113 : | PROPHETS
"True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely." |
| Yoko Ono |
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| Quotation 114 : | PROPHETS
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." |
| Socrates |
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| Quotation 115 : | PROPHETS
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man." |
| Diogenes |
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| Quotation 116 : | PROPHETS
"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death." |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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| Quotation 117 : | PROPHETS
"In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism." |
| Elie Wiesel |
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| Quotation 118 : | PROPHETS
"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them." |
| Umberto Eco |
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| Quotation 119 : | PROPHETS
"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert." |
| Noam Chomsky |
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| Quotation 120 : | PROPHETS
"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it." |
| Buffalo Bill |
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| Quotation 121 : | PROPHETS
"The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian." |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette |
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| Quotation 122 : | PROPHETS
"Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past." |
| Karen Armstrong |
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| Quotation 123 : | PROPHETS
"There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine." |
| Karen Armstrong |
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| Quotation 124 : | PROPHETS
"The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New." |
| Adam Clarke |
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| Quotation 125 : | PROPHETS
"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the ch" |
| William Ames |
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| Quotation 126 : | PROPHETS
"The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe." |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette |
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| Quotation 127 : | PROPHETS
"The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice." |
| Lactantius |
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| Quotation 128 : | PROPHETS
"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips." |
| Origen |
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| Quotation 129 : | PROPHETS
"For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles." |
| Origen |
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| Quotation 130 : | PROPHETS
"If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion." |
| Origen |
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| Quotation 131 : | PROPHETS
"There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God." |
| George A. Smith |
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