Gold Nugget 298 - The Twin Guides

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      Knowledge without love leads to pride; intolerance; selfishness; injury to others; many blunders in thought, feeling, and action.  Knowledge is not enough for a people.  We may have abundance of knowledge, and yet be very unwise, very injurious, and very unlovable.

      Love without knowledge leads to moral catastrophe.  It is impossible to predict what conduct may result from mere affection.  Knowledge is necessary to determine within what limits we may rightly act.  Knowledge can decide for us what is “lawful.”  Love determines what, within the circle of the lawful, we should choose. 

      Knowledge and love united lead us to that more perfect, that penetrating, that true practical knowledge … True love controlling sound knowledge leads to a deeper insight – in other words, to a truer knowledge. …

      Knowledge says, “Do all that you have a right to do;” Love says, “Consider others, especially the weak.”  Knowledge alone leads to contempt of the weak and ignorant and to indifference as to how they are affected; but Love champions the cause of those who specially need consideration and help. … This is the path of the truest knowledge; for here we learn not only what we may do, but what in the highest sense we ought to do. …

      We need, for safe guidance, the twin guides, knowledge and love. 

 

The Pulpit Commentary, I Corinthians p.274, Corinthians 8:1-11, (E. Hurndall)

 

Gold Nugget 298

The Twin Guides

 

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