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Quote #:26
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.
- Anselm
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Quote #:27
Added by: Pilgrim
11-30-2007
 “  I have a peaceful study, as a refuge from the hurries and noise of the world around me; the venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me, and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
- Samuel Davies
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Quote #:28
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  May we ever be on guard against those who in the name of religion would add to God΄s law. To be stricter than God is no evidence of piety but, contrariwise, of abominable presumption. To add to God΄s law is just as heinous a sin as to subtract from it. He who does either puts himself in God΄s place.

Therefore it is not at all strange that he who today forbids what God allows will tomorrow allow what God forbids. That is precisely what one may expect of him who sets himself up as Lawgiver in God's stead. He is sure to topple from the cliff of rigid moralism into the abyss of reeking immorality.
- R.B. Kuiper
(R.B. Kuiper, God's Will and God's Word)
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Quote #:29
Added by: Pilgrim
11-30-2007
 “  Clear-cut definition of terms in religious matters, bold facing of the logical implications of religious views, is by many persons regarded as an impious proceeding. May it not discourage contribution to mission boards? May it not hinder the progress of consolidation, and produce a poor showing in columns of Church statistics? But with such persons we cannot possibly bring ourselves to agree. Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end. The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks
of life. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.
- J. Gresham Machen
(Christianity and Liberalism pp. 1-2.)
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Quote #:30
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  The world drinks to forget; the Christian drinks to remember.
- Steve Brown
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Quote #:31
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  Have communion with few,
be intimate with ONE,
deal justly with all,
speak evil of none.
- The New England Primer
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Quote #:33
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Quote #:34
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  One man with God is always in the majority.
- John Knox
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Quote #:35
Added by: Pilgrim
11-30-2007
 “  If there be such a thing as “lying to the Holy Ghost,” here it is. It is destroying the very intention of a creed; the object of which, as all allow, is to ascertain and secure concurrence of faith. If the system of doctrine taught in the Confession be wrong, let it by all means be changed. But as long as we profess to hold certain doctrines, let us really and honestly hold them. I would unspeakably rather discard the Confession altogether, than adopt a principle which would render its use a solemn mockery.
- Samuel Miller
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Quote #:36
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  The catechisms composed by others have served me as aids and guides. The reason why in this process I do not follow so much the Heidelberg Catechism as I do the Westminster Shorter Catechism of England, Scotland, and Ireland is simply that the latter is in all respects superior. For why should we not honestly acknowledge such an obvious truth? It would be good if the church of The Netherlands would be willing to learn and take over a variety of things from the churches in England and Scotland, things which they formulated in their church order and other formularies more clearly in accordance with God's Word than our church has done.
- Jacobus Koelman
(The Duties of Parents, p. 31)
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Quote #:37
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  You are pleased, dear Sir, very kindly to ask me, whether I could sign the Westminster Confession of Faith, and submit to the Presbyterian form of Church Government; and to offer to use your influence to procure a call for me, to some congregation in Scotland. I should be very ungrateful, if I were not thankful for such kindness and friendship. As to my subscribing to the substance of the Westminster Confession, there would be no difficulty; and as to the Presbyterian Government, I have long been perfectly out of conceit of our unsettled, independent, confused way of church government in this land; and the Presbyterian way has ever appeared to me most agreeable to the word of God, and the reason and nature of things; though I cannot say that I think, that the Presbyterian government of the Church of Scotland is so perfect, that it cannot, in some respects, be mended.
- Jonathan Edwards
(The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life (1830), Vol. I, p. 412 (Letter from Jonathan Edwards to John Erskine dated July 5, 1750))
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Quote #:38
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  Those who know themselves best fear themselves most.
- Donald Cargill
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Quote #:39
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  Contrary to Mrs. Grundy, sex is not sin. Contrary to Hugh Hefner, it's not salvation either. Like nitroglycerin, it can be used either to blow up bridges or heal hearts.
- Frederick Beuchner
(Wishful Thinking -- A Theological ABC, p. 87)
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Quote #:40
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  Games may be divided into three sorts: games of wit or industry, games of hazard, and a mixture of both. Games of wit or industry are such as are ordered by the skill and industry of man. Of this sort are shooting in the longbow, shooting in the caliver, running, wrestling, fencing, music, and the games of chess and draughts...These, and all of this kind, wherein the industry of the mind and body hath the chiefest stroke, are very commendable, and not to be disliked. Games of hazard are those in which hazard only bears the sway and orders the game, and not wit: wherein also there is, as we say, chance, yea mere chance in regard of us. Now games that are of mere hazard, by the consent of godly divines are unlawful. The reasons are these: First, games of mere hazard are indeed lots, and the use of a lot is an act of religion, in which we refer unto the God determination of things of moment that can no other way be determined...Secondly, such games are not recreations, but rather matter of stirring up troublesome passions, as fear, sorrow...Thirdly, covetousness is commonly the ground of them all. Whereupon it is that men usually play for money. And for these causes such plays...are unlawful. The third kind of plays are mixed, which stand partly of hazard and partly of wit, and in which hazard begins the game and skill gets the victory, and that which is defective by reason of hazard is corrected by wit...Now the common opinion of learned divines is that, as they are not to be commended, so they are not simply to be condemned, and if they be used they must be used very sparingly.
- William Perkins
(I.D.E. Thomas, A Puritan Golden Treasury)
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Quote #:41
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  Now I leave off to speak any more with created beings and begin my communion with God, which shall never be broken off. Farewell, father and mother, friends and relations! Farewell, the world and all delights! Farewell meat and drink! Farewell, sun, moon and stars! Welcome, God and Father! Welcome, sweet Lord Jesus, the mediator of the New Covenant! Welcome, blessed Spirit of grace, God of all consolation! Welcome glory! Welcome eternal life! Welcome death!
- Hugh McKail
(Spoken on December 22, 1666 prior to his execution)
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Quote #:42
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
11-30-2007
 “  (Note) that the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
- Matthew Henry
(Commentary on the Holy Bible, Gen. 2.21-25)
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Quote #:43
Added by: JM
11-30-2007
 “  A man's free will cannot cure him even of a toothache or a sore finger, and yet he madly thinks it is in his power to cure his soul of sin. Actually, the greatest judgment which God Himself can in this present life inflict upon a man is to leave that man in the hand of HIS OWN BOASTING FREE-WILL!
- Augustus Toplady
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Quote #:44
Added by: Herald
12-01-2007
 “  My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and
that's the law."
- Jerry Seinfeld
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Quote #:45
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
12-01-2007
 “  Circumstances are those concomitants of an action without which it either cannot be done at all, or cannot be done with decency and decorum. Public worship, for example, requires public assemblies, and in public assemblies people must appear in some costume and assume some posture. . . . Public assemblies, moreover, cannot be held without fixing the time and place of meeting: these are circumstances which the church is at liberty to regulate. . . . We must distinguish between those circumstances which attend actions as actions—that is, without which the actions cannot be—and those circumstances which, though not essential, are added as appendages. These last do not fall within the jurisdiction of the church. She has no right to appoint them. They are circumstances in the sense that they do not belong to the substance of the act. They are not circumstances in the sense that they so surround it that they cannot be separated from it. A liturgy is a circumstance of this kind. . . . In public worship, indeed in all commanded external actions, there are two elements—a fixed and a variable. The fixed element, involving the essence of the thing, is beyond the discretion of the church. The variable, involving only the circumstances of the action, its separable accidents, may be changed, modified or altered, according to the exigencies of the case.
- James H. Thornwell
(Quoted by John L. Girardeau, The Discretionary Power of the Church)
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Quote #:46
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
12-02-2007
 “  {The Establishment Principle is not only] “worth living for, but a principle worth dying for.
- John Kennedy of Dingwall
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Quote #:47
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
12-02-2007
 “  A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar and unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.... The best introduction to astronomy, is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
- George Eliot
(Daniel Deronda)
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Quote #:48
Added by: VirginiaHuguenot
12-02-2007
 “  Frodo: "I wish it need not have happened in my time."

Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
(The Fellowship of the Ring, p. 60)
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Quote #:49
Added by: py3ak
12-02-2007
 “  Go, lovely rose
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired:
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

Then die that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
- Edmund Waller
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Quote #:50
Added by: py3ak
12-02-2007
 “  Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,

The finger points look through like rosy blooms:

Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms

'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.


All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,

Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge,

Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.

'Tis visible silence, still as the hour glass.


Deep in the sunsearch'd growth the dragonfly

Hangs like a blue thread loosen'd from the sky:

So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.

Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,

This close companion'd inarticulate hour,

When twofold silence was the song of love.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(Silent Noon from "The House of Life")
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Quote #:51
Added by: py3ak
12-02-2007
 “  Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour's slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot beat quiet till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other: yea, so greatly indebted are we to this kinsman of death, that we owe the better tributary, half of our life to him: and there is good cause why we should do so: for sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want? of wounds? of cares? of great men's oppressions? of captivity? while he sleepeth? Beggars in their beds take as much pleasure as kings: can we therefore surfeit on this delicate Ambrosia? Can we drink too much of that whereof to taste too little tumbles us into a churchyard, and to use it but indifferently throws us into Bedlam? No, no, look upon Endymion, the moon's minion, who slept three score and fifteen years, and was not a hair the worse for it.
- Thomas Dekker
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