Sunday, January 31, 2010

Quotes =]

Was it possible that so complicated a phenomenon could have so simple and terrible an explanation? Could it really be that all the talk about freedom, justice, goodness, law, religion, God and so on was nothing but so many words to conceal the grossest self-interest and cruelty?
(Leo Tolstoy)

God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen but by its being rejoiced in.
(Jonathan Edwards)

What a man is alone on his knees before God, that he is and no more.
(R.M M'Cheyne)

Just as God's Word must reform out theology, our ethics, and practices so on must it reform our praying.
(D.A Carson)

He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee which he loves, not for Thy sake.
(St. Augustine)

True saints have their minds, in the first place, inexpressibly pleased and delighted with the sweet ideas of the glorious and amiable nature of the things of God.
(Jonathan Edwards)

Error can never be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it.
(John Calvin)

But my recovery cannot spring from any cause in me, I can destroy but cannot save myself.
(Valley of Vision)

Where Christ is, cheerfulness will keep breaking in.
(Dorothy Sayers)

Anchora Imparo.
[Yet I am learning.]
(Michelangelo)

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