Knowledge That Puffs Quotes

#1. If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

John Cassian

#2. I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it's time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

Lee Kuan Yew

#5. My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

Margaret Cavendish

#6. It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.

Habeeb Akande

#7. But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

Luther Allison

#8. Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Penelope Keith

#9. We need not hang our heads and beg. All we need to do is lift up our faces and ask. May Jesus touch our lips again with coals from the altar and set our tongues aflame with His holy fire.

Beth Moore

#10. I took the right sow by the ear.

Robert Walpole

#11. The knowledge of God's Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.

John Bevere

#12. Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. it's important to treasure your woman while you have her because if you don't, you can lose her pretty quickly

Matthew Quick

#14. When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#15. (On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Louis Zamperini