Quotes 23 Feb

'In many ways, it [the social gospel] was just Marxism in Christian clothing.' -Rick Warren

“For all our dreams, our dark and frightened imaginings of God, there is no God in heaven who is unlike Jesus…In Christ the Word, we exchange darkness for light as we think of God. For he perfectly shows us an unsurpassably desirable God, a kind God who is against all that is wrong, a God who thaws us.”- Rejoicing in Christ by Mike Reeves

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”- C.S. Lewis

Jesus invited us, not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage;
not to a frolic, but to a fight.  He offered us, not an
excursion, but an execution.  Our Savior said that
we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and
the world.
     --Billy Graham (1918-2018)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
       of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Discipleship")

Beer brings freedom
One brings health
Cognac brings power
Water brings bacteria- unk