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Friday, 11 August 2017

Quotes 12 Aug 17

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.- John Calvin‏ @JohnCalvinDaily

What is important is not the number of people praying but the nature of the praying. - Timothy Keller‏Verified account @timkellernyc

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken (b 1880, d 1956

Better is the poor, being sound and strong of
constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted
in his body.  Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth.  There is no riches above a sound body. -The Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 30:14-16http://www.biblestudytools.com/kjva/ben-sira/30.html

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. -William Shakespeare (1564-1616) _Much Ado About Nothing_ [1598-1600]; Act III, Scene II, Line 26 http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/much_3_2.html

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