I have been steadily digesting (in both senses of the word) J.P. Moreland's Love Your God With All Your Mind. By this I mean that I have been progressively enacting his thoughts in my life and have been reading the book in digest-like chunks in order that they may seep in more deeply. Although I will admit to some academic weakness in not making it through more quickly.
At the moment I am in Chapter 8, "Worship, Fellowship, and the Christian Mind." As a bumper to each chapter Moreland includes quotations fitting to the chapter's subject. I found two noteworthy for this chapter. That alone would not have been enough to blog them, just perhaps underline, but these I would like to etch into my thinking and remember for future times when my intellectual fervor struggles. They are as follows:
Lord and Savior, true and kind, be the master of my mind;
Bless and guide and strengthen still all my powers of thought and will.
While I ply the scholar's task, Jesus Christ be near, I ask;
Help the memory, clear the brain, knowledge still to seek and gain.
~Bishop H.G.C. Moule - Church of England Bishop
If there is a religion in the world which exalts the office of teaching, it is safe to say that it is the religion of Jesus Christ... A religion divorced from earnest and lofty thoughts has always, down the whole of history of the Church, tended to become weak, jejune and unwholesome, while the intellect, deprived of its rights within religion, has sought its satisfaction without, and developed into a godless rationalism.
~James Orr
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