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“Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.”
“Our view of human problems determines who is qualified to speak to them. If sin is the primary human problem, then those with the theological and practical expertise in dealing with sin in its var...”
“It is not, in Calvins view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.”
“The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.”
“Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.”
“Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.”
“As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.”
“It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sinswhen, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.”
“Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.”
“I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.”
“Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.”
“When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier ...”
“If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;”
“To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.”
“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysteric...”
“Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.”
“Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.”
“Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.”
“True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.”
“When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.”
