Thinking

Bishop J. C. Ryle once said, "The cause of true religion has gained a great step in a parish, or congregation, or family, when people begin to think. Thoughtlessness about spiritual things is one great feature of the unconverted. It cannot be said, in many cases, that they like the Gospel or dislike it; for they do not give it a place in their thoughts."

C.S. Lewis said, "God has room for people with very little sense. But he expects them to use all the sense they have." He added, "God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers." And John R. W. Stott said, "We not only need to think about Christian things, we need to think Christianly about things."

One with even greater authority than these said, "Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind."

- Donald T. Williams
Excerpted from: Touchstone Magazine, April 2009