“In contrast to the secularist outlook, said Gaebelein, Christians must insist that ‘our intellectual life is infused with faith.’ But that does not mean that Christian intellectual activity is an easy thing. We must pay a price if we are to use our minds to glorify God. ‘And the price will not come down. It is nothing less than the discipline of self-restraint and plain hard work.'”
–Frank Gaebelein, The Christian, the Arts, and Truth: Regaining the Vision of Greatness, ed. D. Bruce Lockerbie (Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1985), 154-155. The excerpt above is introduced by Richard Mouw in his Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman’s, 2014), 3.
Question for reflection: how does the “discipline of self-restraint” relate to “using our minds to glorify God”?