Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believedthat the most effectual means of preventing this would be to illuminate as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large that…they may be enabled to know ambition under all shapes and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Bill for the More General diffusion of Knowledge (1778)
To cling to the crucified and risen Lord is to abolish all hopelessness. There are no hopeless situations for the Christian.- P. Andrew Sandlin
He who is armed with the power of God will not tremble at the noise raised by the world. -John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
"New life is not something we can work up, it is something that must come down." —Sinclair Ferguson
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Affirming the Bible’s inerrancy is not the same as trusting its sufficiency. - Brian Osisek
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