My ev’ry sacred moment spend To publish forth the sinners’ Friend.
Quotes
My philosophy professor in college had some helpful advice when it came to writing papers: if the author has written something so well that you don’t want to mess it up by paraphrasing, then quote it. Here are some favorite quotes:
Nil desperandum Christo duce et auspice Christo.
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible. What a pity we only plan the things we can do ourselves.
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
Every family ought to be a little church, consecrated to Christ and wholly influenced and governed by His rules.
He loves us too well to admit any rival; because, so far as our hearts are empty of God, so far must they be unhappy.
These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never
yet visited.
yet visited.
I count myself as one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.
But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.
When you're young, you're OK but you drive a piece of junk; when you get old, you drive a nice car but you're a piece of junk.
I have firmly decided to study Greek, nobody except God can prevent it. It is not a matter of personal ambition but one of understanding the most Sacred Writings.
Culture cannot be meaningless, but it cannot be our main concern either. It cannot be the primary focus of our thought because it is passing.
At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
Outside Christ there is nothing worth knowing, and all who by faith perceive what he is like have grasped the whole immensity of heavenly benefits.
The Moderator said to him. “Well Squier, you told us that you saw that God would be just in cuting you off in your sins, and send you to hell did you ever see how he can remain just and save you?” he replied. “Wy it reason wid me dis way, I save de sinne for my sons sake.”
Reading scripture in translation is like kissing your bride through a veil.
