Wednesday, March 19, 2008

WW--Knowledge Is Overrated

~Did the Pharisees have knowledge? Yes. Did the Pharisees benefit from their knowledge? No. Did the Pharisees’ knowledge actually interfere with pleasing God? Yes.
~Paul explains that knowledge without love is nothing.
~Knowledge is power, but power corrupts. The more power, the greater the corruption, hence, the more knowledge you have, the more corrupt you become.
~The great sin of modernity is to acquire abundant amounts of knowledge without any notion of serving God with it. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake.
~What you don’t know can’t hurt you.
~Ignorance is bliss.
~Knowledge puffs up.
~If people didn’t know so much, they would be a lot happier with the less they have.
~Lack of knowledge means lack of awareness, means easier contentment.
~Better to know a little and do it than a lot and not do it, which is the plague in our churches.
~James warns us not to become teachers, and the best way to avoid being a teacher is to not know much.
~Do college professors know a lot? How’s that working for them?
~If you don’t know much, then you aren’t held accountable for much.
~Knowledge leads to pride, judgment, dissatisfaction.
~Education is really expensive.
~The more you know, the easier it is to divide from other people, especially because knowledge produces stronger and more confident viewpoints.
~You can know a lot and still not know the whole picture, but your arrogance about the part you know can blind you to the rest.
~Even Paul said he is committed only to knowing Christ and Him crucified, as if to declare as worthless all the other things he knows.

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