How I love Your instruction! It is my meditation all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me. I have more insight than all my teachers because Your decrees are my meditation. I understand more than the elders because I obey Your precepts. Psalm 119:97-100 HCSB

A simple layman armed with Scripture possesses greater wisdom than any throne, chair, or title that stands without it.

h/t to Martin Luther (1483 – 1586) who expressed this sentiment: “A simple layman armed with scripture is greater than the mightiest Pope without it.”