Pastoral Resources

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.