The last thing many believers need today is to go to another Bible study. They already know far more than they are putting into practice. What they need are serving experiences in which they can exercise their spiritual muscles.
- Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, 2002, pg 231.
There is not a more false maxim than this, though common in almost every mouth, that ‘men know enough, if they would but practice better.’ God says, on the contrary, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” And as, at first, men live in sin, easy and well pleased, because they know not what they do, so, after they are alive and awake, they do little for God, or gain little victory over sin, through the ignorance that is in them. They have no comfort, no establishment, no certainty that they are in the right path, even when they are going to God, because the eyes of their understanding are so little enlightened to discern the things that make for their peace.
- Henry Venn, Letters of Henry Venn, 1763, pg 106.
