“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.” MenReasonChristModernMankindLonelinessCryPridePureIntellectualConscienceTraditionEmptyClaimsPrejudiceIntuitionVanitySatanWildernessLive ByArrogantTemptedDeprivedWisestModern ManWitheredExpanseWasteland Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?” IfsUseRunningChristianCoursesSpeakChristPerfectSacrificeEternalIntellectualGloryCrossesSalvationRedemptionGentleCrucialSheepPreacherJustificationEarnestAtonementGift From GodSanctificationFree Gifts Author:C. I. Scofield
“Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!” WantChristianChristReligiousChristianityIntellectualOppositionReign Book:Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God
“I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.” KnowsHeartChristDifferencesChurchMy HeartIntellectualPresbyterians Author:Billy Graham