Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables uncomposed, are no better than nonsense. He who overlooketh him who is the 'Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, ' and seeth not him in all who is the All of all, doth see nothing at all. All creatures, as such, are broken syllables; they signify nothing as separated from God. Were they separated actually, they would cease to be, and the separation would be annhiliation; and when we separate them in our fancies, we make nothing of them to ourselves. It is one thing to know the creatures as Aristotle, and another thing to know them as a Christian. None but a Christian can read one line of his Physics so as to understand it rightly. It is a high and excellent study, and of greater use than many apprehend; but it is the smallest part of it that Aristotle can teach us. Richard Baxter
About This Quote

If you are studying something that is even remotely related to the Christian faith, then you should be studying it as a Christian. It is not enough to know Aristotle’s theories of physics or how they are related to his studies of Metaphysics. You have to study them as a Christian so that you can understand them correctly. For example, it is one thing to know the answer to the question “What is the symbol of the Trinity?”, but it is another thing entirely to know what you are looking for when you see that symbol.

If you see an image of three people in a triangle and someone tells you they represent the Trinity, then they are right. However, if you look at that image and see something else, then your understanding is incomplete.

Source: The Reformed Pastor

Some Similar Quotes
  1. A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. - Eoin Colfer
  2. Could we wear spandex and blow things up? - Lisa Mantchev
  3. Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am. - Julie Kagawa
  4. You were so intent on what your purpose would be. I remember it nearly word for word."" Recite it for me then, my Lainna."She smiled a warm, soft smile, and her eyes filled with light." You would waken in your bedchamber with your lady beside... - Leigh Ann Edwards
  5. Half the pleasure is in the anticipatin' of it. - Leigh Ann Edwards
More Quotes By Richard Baxter
  1. Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
  2. Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
  3. My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
  4. A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
  5. Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Related Topics