I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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Enlightenment is a sublime word, if one goes back to its meaning; it means illumination of the spirit through truth, liberation from the shadows of error, or uncertainty, of doubt. Enlightenment is, in its deepest meaning, the transfiguration ( Verkl
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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2 Corinthians 4:6:
For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.
(NIV)
For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [Gen. 1:3.](AMP)
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
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If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person what is most holy, what God has inspired in him or her. And only then will there be no danger of softening or twisting our witness. Why? Because the capacity of our faith will no longer be narrow. If we are not broadhearted, we have not yet grasped the meaning of faith. We must always be ready to be newly led in our faith, even through the tiniest atom of godliness we find in others. It is that which leads us to the kingdom of God. We affirm that there is something of God in all people -- something of the light. It may only gleam now, but it will eventually lead to complete illumination.
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
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He used statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not illumination.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than illumination.
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John 7:17:
Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
(NIV)
If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My own accord and on My own authority.
(AMP)
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
(KJV)
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1 Corinthians 12:7:
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
(NIV)
But to each one is given the manifestation of the [Holy] Spirit [the evidence, the spiritual illumination of the Spirit] for good and profit.
(AMP)
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
(KJV)
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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
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1 Corinthians 1:5:
For in him you have been enriched in every way – with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge –
(NIV)
[So] that in Him in every respect you were enriched, in full power and readiness of speech [to speak of your faith] and complete knowledge and illumination [to give you full insight into its meaning].
(AMP)
That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
(KJV)
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Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.
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