Quotes about Ignorance

Ignorance of God is the source of all wickedness and confusion among men. From this ignorance arouse that flood of abominations which God swept away in Noah's day. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were burned up with fire from heaven. In short, all the rage, blood, confusion, desolations, cruelties, oppressions and disasters which fill the world to this day, by which the souls of men have been swept into eternal destruction, have all arisen from the ignorance of God.

It grieves me ofttimes to see poor souls, that have a zeal for God and a desire of eternal welfare, kept by such directors and directions under a hard, burdensome, outside worship and service of God, with many specious endeavours for mortification, in an utter ignorance of the righteousness of Christ, and unacquaintedness with his Spirit, all their days.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During