Monthly archives: August, 2019

True Wisdom and Knowledge

August 31, 2019 jakin7

The sum of all true wisdom and knowledge may be reduced to these three heads:

(1) The knowledge of God, his nature and his properties.

(2) The knowledge of ourselves in reference to the will of God concerning us.

(3) Skill to walk in communion with God:



John Owen (1616-1683)

Communion with the Triune God

p.184. edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor

Something Beyond

August 30, 2019 jakin7

…The human understanding is unquiet;

it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain.

Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity, it occurs to us that there is something beyond.
from Novum Organum Francis Bacon (1561 –1626)

To Every Mind

August 29, 2019 jakin7

Go speed the stars of Thought
On to their shining goals;-

The sower scatters broad his seed,

The wheat thou strew’st be souls.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both.

from Intellect by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Rescue

August 27, 2019 jakin7

“Christianity is a rescue religion.”

John Stott (1921-2011)

Aslan

August 26, 2019 jakin7

“Aslan is on the move!”

from the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)