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Knowledge: Quotations from Burning Words

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him. -— MILTON

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, - studied for, - thought for, — and, more than all, it must be prayed for.— THOMAS ARNOLD

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.— Wm. MOUNTFORD

As revelation is the great strengthener of reason, the march of mind which leaves the Bible in the rear, is an advance, like that of our first parents in Paradise, towards knowledge, but, at the same time, towards death.— HENRY MELVILL

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it. -— GEORGE HERBERT

An uneducated population may be degraded; a population educated, but not in righteousness, will be ungovernable. The one may be slaves, the other must be tyrants.— HENRY MELVILL

Every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue. It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application.— SYDNEY SMITH,

Learning, without Christ, is among the most dangerous attainments the human race has ever secured, and one of the most unsatisfying.— BISHOP HAVEN

If thou knewest the whole Bible by heart, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what would it profit thee without the love of God and without grace ?— THOMAS À KEMPIS

What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.— C. N. BOVEE

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves.— GARDINER SPRING

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.— THOMAS BROOKS

How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!— YOUNG

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.— JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.— YOUNG

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.— H. P. LIDDON

Young converts are sometimes so taken up with religious feeling and doing as to forget the importance even, in reference to that of knowing. "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."— JOHN ANGEL JAMES

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.— LORD BROUGHAM

O Lord, let me be blessed with the knowledge of what Thou hast revealed; let me content myself to adore Thy Divine wisdom in what Thou hast not revealed. L.