Ignorance is the mark of the heathen, knowledge of the true church, and conceit of the heretics.

This is the sanctification of your studies, when they are devoted to God, and when he is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the world.

I get tired of being asked why I don't just preach the "simple gospel." You have to preach the simple gospel so that it is simple to the person to whom you are talking, or it is no longer simple.

Let all writers have their due esteem, but compare none of them with the Word of God. We will not refuse their service, but we must abhor them as rivals or competitors. It is the sign of a distempered heart that loseth the relish of Scripture excellency.

God never gives us information about himself merely to satisfy our curiosity. All that we need to know about him in this life he has told us.

The Ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of people, and not for any private ends of our own...Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching, is but more glorious hypocritical sinning, if the ends be not right.

There is a philosophy which is a noble exercise of our reasonable faculties, and highly serviceable to religion, such a study of the works of God as leads us to the knowledge of God and confirms our faith in him. But there is a philosophy which is vain and deceitful, which is prejudicial to religion, and sets up the wisdom of man in competition with the wisdom of God, and while it pleases men's fancies ruins their faith; as nice and curious speculations about things above us, or of no use and concern to us; or a care of words and terms of art, which have only an empty and often a cheating appearance of knowledge.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

To denigrate the mind is to undermine foundational Christian doctrines.

"All generalizations are false, including this one," yet we keep making them. We create images - graven ones that can't be changed; we dismiss or accept people, products, programs, and propaganda according to the labels they come under; we know a little about something, and we treat it as if we know everything.

We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it...A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be decieved by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

To be a Professor of Theology is to have crucified Christ.

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator...

Many have the flower of utterance that have not the root of knowledge, and their converse is barren. Many have the treasure of knowledge, and want utterance to employ it for the good of others, and then it is in a manner wrapped up in a napkin. But, where God gives both, A man is qualified for eminent usefullness.

Experience will teach, that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, and unwearied labour and experience.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Let this, therefore, first of all be before our eyes: to seek any other knowledge of predestination than what the Word of God discloses is not less insane than if one should purpose to walk in a pathless waste, or to see in darkness. And let us not be ashamed to be ignorant of something in this matter, wherein there is a certain learned ignorance. Rather, let us willingly refrain from inquiring into a kind of knowledge, the ardent desire for which is both foolish and dangerous, nay, even deadly.