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Tuesday 25 April 2017

Quotes 26 Apr 17

Our religion will be unprofitable if it does not change our heart, pervade our manners, and transform us into new creatures.- John Calvin‏ @JohnCalvinDaily

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. –Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Socialism does not rid a society of greed, it gives the government and its officials a monopoly on greed. And since all power has been concentrated into the hands of the government, it is omnipotent greed. -a New Yorker
http://philosophicalconservatism.com/post/159466452941/socialism-does-not-rid-a-society-of-greed-it

Men become susceptible to ideas not by discussion and argument, but by seeing them personified and loving the person who so embodies them. -Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) U.S. historian, The Conduct of Life, 4.3 (1951)

“It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will—and it was his love for sinners like me.”― D.A. Carson

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