“True knowledge results in profound humility, which fuels childlike wonder.”

A thought by Mark Batterson from his book, Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be (p. 19). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Mark says, “Teddy Roosevelt was a fighter, no doubt. But he was also a thinker. And that’s part and parcel of playing the man— brains, and brawn. Roosevelt was a gentleman and a scholar, modeling the second virtue of manhood. He knew more about more things than perhaps anyone of his era. But the more you know, the more you know how much you don’t know! True knowledge results in profound humility, which fuels childlike wonder.

Mark goes on, “This virtue certainly isn’t exclusive to men, but I find it more lacking in men than in women. At some point, most men lose their childlike sense of wonder. That’s the day we stop living and start dying. And while that may sound somewhat sentimental, it’s actually a stewardship issue.

Later Mark says, “A big man knows how small he is, and that sense of smallness makes him appreciate how big God is. The true measure of a man isn’t how much he knows; it’s how much he does with what he knows.

“A scholar knows how much he knows and lets everybody know it. A gentleman and a scholar knows how much he doesn’t know. He cares less about being right than about being righteous. He loves asking questions more than giving answers.

“He’s driven by a childlike wonder to know as much as he can about as much as he can. Why? So, he can worship God as much as he can.”

One of the purposes of this blog is to give people exposure to thoughts that will help to change their days but it also is a way to expose you to books.  I hope that you will be challenged by a thought of a particular author and then buy the book and continue learning more about the thought. 

So many just read the thought but don’t stop to continue the thought.  But many do, and some even go so far as to buy the book and continue the thought and then apply it to their life.

My mom and dad gave me the deep desire to read.  I want to know, I want to grow.  Do you want to know/grow?  Do you?

Yes, yes!