Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.
— Richard Ashcroft
How can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength if we must separate our minds from our faith? Such a separation violates the very meaning of faith.
— Hugh Ross
Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.
— St. Augustine
We also give up on the quest for truth when we marshal all forces—in exegesis and history as well as in philosophical, moral, and practical theology—to "discover" and corroborate predetermined dogmatic stances.
— Miroslav Volf
When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.
— Miroslav Volf
Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.
— Miroslav Volf
your primary obligation is not to become competent in the subject matter but instead to understand the problem.
— Mortimer Adler
To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It
— Mortimer Adler
You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, I understand, before you can say any one of the following things: I agree, or I disagree, or I suspend Judgment.
— Mortimer Adler
always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
— Mortimer Adler
God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss