“Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.”

—  Alexander Maclaren

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p. 365.

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