“One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.” -Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Nonsense and faith (strange as the conjunction may seem) are the two supreme symbolic assertions of the truth that to draw out the soul of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook. The well-meaning person who, by merely studying the logical side of things, has decided that “faith is nonsense,” does not know how truly he speaks; later it may come back to him in the form that nonsense is faith. --GK Chesterton, _The Defendant_ (1901)
In justification we are liberated from the chains of our sins, so far as they bound us for condemnation, yea, even so far as they held us under the dominion of Satan; and this suffices for its being truly said that the chains of our sins are broken asunder by the grace of God; for the remains thereof, abiding in us, have not the nature of a chain, but are themselves enchained by the grace now predominant over them, and treading them, as it were, under foot. - John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
As original righteousness comprehended the spiritual light of the mind, so original sin implies the densest mental darkness.- John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
We acknowledge that God infuses a righteousness, in the very act of justifying; but we deny that the sentence of God, in justifying, has respect to this as the cause by which man is constituted justified.- John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
Thank you brother for the Davenport quotes. Very edifying.
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