Josh Billings used to say, Id rather know a few things for certain than be sure of a lot of things that aint so. It may offend some of the higher-ups, but the outstanding characteristic of this generation is ignorance. And yet there never has been a generation that prided itself more on its cleverness, smartness, and sophistication. We are the most-read, not the best-read, people in history. We never had more college students and never more ignorance, not only outside our schools but inside, because there is such a thing as educated ignorance. A leading American educator said, The intelligence of the race has failed before the problems which the race has raised. We never had so much smartness and stupidity at the same time. We know a lot about a lot of things, but of Gods Word and will we are of all men most ignorant. And whatever else a man may know, if he does not know what God wants him to know, he is an ignoramus. Our Lord said, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. When we are ignorant of these things, we live in error. We travel faster today than ever. John Wesley lived centuries later than Julius Caesar, but he could travel no faster. But what avails our speed if we are going in the wrong direction? In the last hundred years we have learned many interesting things about the world we live in, but we have not learned any better how to live in it. -Vance Havner
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:31:45 +0000
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