Quotes 17 Jan 18

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that
he did not dwell in these temples which men had
commanded and set up, but in people's hearts . . .
His people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
       --George Fox, born (1624-1691)
         _Journal_ [1694]

"MOST Christians fail to fulfill the Christian ideal. This bitter and bracing fact cannot be too much insisted upon in this and every other moral question. But, perhaps, it might be suggested that this failure is not so much the failure of Christians in connection with the Christian ideal as the failure of any men in connection with any ideal. That Christians are not always Christian is obvious; neither are Liberals always liberal, nor Socialists always social, nor Humanitarians always kind, nor Rationalists always rational, nor are gentlemen always gentle, nor do working men always work. If people are especially horrified at the failure of Christian practice, it must be an indirect compliment to the Christian creed."
--G.K. Chesterton: "Daily News," Feb. 13, 1906

To be fit for heaven a man must be perfect.  Go, you
who think you can prepare yourselves, be perfect
for one day.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 62 [1916]

Florida Senator Marco Rubio:
  Well, let me be clear about one thing: There's only
  one savior and it's not me.  It's Jesus Christ, who
  came down to earth and died for our sins.
     --Dialogue from the Fox News-Google Republican
       presidential debate at Des Moines, Iowa;
       January 28, 2016

A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is
more valuable than a college course without the Bible.
     --William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943)
      (In Marion Parker's _Thoughts Of The Great:
       A Scrapbook of Quotations_ [1960])