Quotes about Knowledge

The beasts and the trees will one day share with us a new creation and we will see them as God sees them and know that they are very good. Meanwhile, if we embrace them for themselves, we discover both them and ourselves as evil. This is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—disgust with the things we have misused and hatred of ourselves for misusing them.

Therefore beware of the contemplative who says that theology is all straw before he has ever bothered to read any.

Had I ever read the Life of St. Bernard by Dom Ailbe Luddy?—

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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

Through a diligent study of God's Word, under the guidance of His Spirit, you'll drop a strong anchor that will hold in the storms of life. You will know your God. And when you know your God, not only will you be strong, but you will do great exploits for Him (Daniel 11:32).

Life can get distorted and out of whack when you don't know God. And you can't really know Him in truth apart from the Word of God. Look around you at the lives people are living. Find out how important the Bible is in their lives and how much time they devote to studying it. Notice the relationship between their knowledge of God and the way they handle life.

Lord, I refuse to let my attitude be controlled by regrets and worries that reflect a lack of trust in You. My goal is to take every thought captive and destroy any thought that contradicts my knowledge of You. Through the power of Your Holy Spirit, I pray that You will enable me to do this.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them