Chris Moore » education http://www.ckwmoore.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:16:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The goal of reading http://www.ckwmoore.com/quote/the-goal-of-reading-2/ http://www.ckwmoore.com/quote/the-goal-of-reading-2/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:17:58 +0000 Chris http://www.ckwmoore.com/?p=422 The goal of reading is the application, in our lives, of what we read. Not to learn it by heart, but to take it to heart. Not to practice using our tongues, but to be able to receive the tongues of fire and to live the mysteries of God. If one studies a great deal in order to acquire knowledge and to teach others, without living the things he teaches, he does no more than fill his head with hot air. At most he will manage to ascend to the moon using machines. The goal of the Christian is to rise to God without machines.

Elder Paisios the Athonite (1924-1994)

(Via Word from the Desert.)

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St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola 87, 7

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