Holy Spirit: Education and Truth

"We shall never truly know the truth until we are thus taught directly by the Holy Spirit.  No amount of mere human teaching, no matter who our teachers maybe, will ever give us a correct and exact and full apprehension of the truth. Not even a diligent study of the Word either in English or in the original languages will give us a real understanding of the truth. We must be taught directly by the Holy Spirit, and we may be thus taught, each one of us.  The one who is thus taught will understand the truth of God better, even if he does not know one word of Greek and Hebrew, than the one who knows Greek and Hebrew thoroughly, and all the cognate languages as well, but who is not taught of the Spirit."

"The Holy Spirit takes the deep things of God which God has prepared for us, even in the life that now is, and reveals them to us."

--- R. A. Torrey, in "The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit"