“Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. ‘What!’ is the appropriate response, ‘than ten hours over your books, on your knees?†– Benjamin Warfield, Princeton Seminary, 1911 address to students
Reflection
I have been surrounded by books for as long as I can recall. As a child I could hear the footsteps of my parents coming up the stairs as a signal to turn the light out and stash the stack of books under the covers so not to be caught in the crime of staying up past bedtime. I would read four or five books at the same time. I had, and really still have, a reverence for libraries. [Read more…] about The Alps, Prayer, and Scholarship