Character never can be strong, noble, and beautiful, nor can conduct be worthy of intelligent beings bearing God’s image, if Scripture truth be not wrought into the very soul by personal search and pondering. Let us not stay forever in the primer of religious knowledge, amid the easy things that we learned at our mother's knee. There are glorious things beyond these: let us go on to learn them. The word of Christ can get into your heart to dwell in you and transform you only through intelligent thought and pondering.