Quotes about Intellect

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Karl Barth imagined the Christian theologian in the role of John the Baptist in the painting of Matthias Grünewald: he is standing to the side of the cross, holding the open Hebrew Scriptures in one hand and pointing with a finger of the other to the crucified Christ.67 A theologian ought to draw attention to the way of life and to the one who originally embodied it, not to the intellectual prowess, fertile imagination, or dazzling rhetoric of the theologian.

Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. And books that are over your head weary you unless you can reach up to them and pull yourself up their level.

You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

2. STUDY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And when we cease to grow, we begin to die.

Read it quickly and with total immersion.