KNOWLEDGE.
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for,—studied for,—thought for,—and, more than all, it must be prayed for.
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
As revelation is the great strengthener of reason, the march of mind which leaves the Bible in the rear, is an advance, like that of our first parents in Paradise, towards knowledge, but, at the same time, towards death.
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
An uneducated population may be degraded: a population educated, but not in righteousness, will be ungovernable. The one may be slaves, the other must be tyrants.
Every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue. It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application.
