'Paul makes grace common to all men, not because it in fact extends to all, but because it is offered to all. Although Christ suffered for the sins of the world, and is offered by the goodness of God without distinction to all men, yet not all receive him' (John Calvin, Comment on Romans 5: 18).
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) (In William Safire and Leonard Safir's _Words of Wisdom_[1989], "Marriage,Contemplation of")
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) _Ambassador's Journal_ [1969]
The irony of Bill Clinton’s wife complaining about a man who used his power to gain sexual favours from young interns seems to have been lost on her. - David Robertson @theweeflea,https://theweeflea.com/2017/10/16/led-13-harvey-weinstein-juncker-in-a-bar-bertrand-cantat-freedom-to-steal-in-london-flu-and-sexual-orientation-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-abortion-act-thomas-the-tank-engine-the-threa/
“The divine nature is the reason and cause of all worship; so that it is impossible to worship any one person, and not worship the whole Trinity."John Owen, The Glory of Christ (Page 260)
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