My sins are many, but, oh, it is nothing to Jesus to take them all away. - Spurgeon

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778
(nb not true but illustrative of enlightenment folly - GJW)

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.-François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778-

All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778