Adventure Quote by John Newton Download Open image “Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.” — John Newton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Dark Expeditions Knowledge Men Zeal
True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from… — Basil Moreau Copy Share Image
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is… — John Newton Copy Share Image
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all… — John Newton Copy Share
I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another,… — John Newton Copy Share
Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years — John Newton Copy Share Image
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain. — John Newton Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to… — John Newton Copy Share Image
A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us. — John Newton Copy Share Image
By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him… — John Newton Copy Share Image
“The weapons of our warfare, and which alone are powerful to break down the strongholds of error, are not carnal, but spiritual. They are arguments fairly drawn from Scripture and experience, and enforced by such a mild address, as may persuade our readers, that, whether we can convince them or not—we wish well to their souls, and contend only for… — John Newton Copy Share
If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger;… — John Newton Copy Share
If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it. — John Newton Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the… — Ben Eine Copy Share
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share