“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!” KnowsShouldStatesSinLordKnowledgeIgnoranceFairsFoundationEnvyProofRuinsObedienceForbiddenSuspiciousParadise Lost Book 9Paradise Lost Book 2 Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.” GodChristianReligionCausesEasyReligiousAnswersWonderChristianityLordKnowledgeMysteryObjectsTasksChristian InspirationalQuestioningBishopsEasy Answers Book:The Orthodox Way Source: The Orthodox Way
“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.” BelieveMotherFatherNamesLostI BelievePrayerNumbersLordKnowledgeCasesPiecesTenEssentialsLaysAddressesEquipmentTelephonesAlphabetKeystones Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.” WellsArtWisdomSciencePrayerCommonLordKnowledgeCasesToo MuchDiseaseMedicinePatientCommon SenseCuresEnduranceContemptInabilityZealClevernessDeliveranceTreating PatientsMedical Knowledge Author:Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet
“I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.” LifeBelievePlayGodSuccessLordKnowledgeLuckDice Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.” LifeMeanChildrenHas BeensNaturalNumbersLordKnowledgeTenConcernOur ChildrenGloriousRevelationsAdoptionEntitledPersonal Revelation Author:Richard M. Eyre