What has been the effect of coericion [sic]?  To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.  To support roguery and errors all over the earth...  [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.

Whether because of our ignorance or pride, we've turned a collective deaf ear to the whispers of wisdom from the past. - Chap Clark and Kara E. Powell

Prayer without study would be empty.  Study without prayer would be blind.