Quotes related to James 1:5
The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not enough to think about the prophets; we must think through the prophets. It is not enough to read the Bible for its wisdom; we must pray the Bible to comprehend its claim.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
— Abraham Lincoln
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
— Abraham Lincoln
Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....
— Abraham Lincoln
The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
— Abraham Lincoln
We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.
— Alain de Botton
The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
— Alain de Botton
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.
— Alain de Botton