If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of itself.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

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.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

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