This is the wonderful exchange which, out of his measureless benevolence, he has made with us; that, becoming Son of man with us, he has made us sons of God with him; that , by his descent to earth, he has prepared an ascent to heaven for us; that, by taking on our mortality, he has conferred his immortality upon us; that, accepting our weakness, he has strengthened us by his power; that, receiving our poverty unto himself, he has transferred his wealth to us; that, taking the weight of our iniquity upon himself (which oppressed us), he has clothed us with his righteousness.- Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, Institutes
To say that God is sovereign is to declare that no one can thwart His will. —Julius Kim
Paul Bates: (Michael Sheen)
Nostalgia is denial--denial of the painful present.
Inez: (Rachel McAdams)
Well, Gil is a complete romantic. I mean he would
be more than happy living in a complete state of
perpetual denial.
Paul Bates:
And the name for this fallacy is called Golden Age
thinking--the erroneous notion that a different
time period is better than the one one's living in.
It's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those
people who find it difficult to cope with the present. -Dialogue from the film _Midnight In Paris_ [2011], written and directed by Woody Allen
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