Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning.

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Secondly, It evidences his blessedness also, as it intimates that this knowledge is above any that flesh and blood can reveal. "This is such knowledge as my Father which is in heaven only can give: it is too high and excellent to be communicated by such means as other knowledge is. Thou art blessed, that thou knowest that which God alone can teach thee." The

What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

We ought to read and search the Holy Scriptures much, and do it with the design to know the whole of our duty, and in order that the word of God may be "a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our paths." Psal. cxix. 105. Every one ought to strive to get knowledge in divine things, and to grow in such knowledge, to the end that he may know his duty, and know what God would have him to do.