Quotes 13 Apr 18

Almighty God and Father, grant unto us because we have to go through much strife in this earth, the strength of Thy Holy Spirit in order that we may courageously go through the fire and through the water and that we may courageously go through the fire and through the water and that we may go to meet death in full confidence of thy assistance and without fear.
    Grant us also that we may bear all hatred and enmity of mankind until we have gained the last victory and that we may at last come to that blessed rest which thy only begotten son has acquired for us through his blood. Amen - A prayer by John Calvin in I shall not die but live, Douglas Taylor Page 33

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace. —John Bunyan

Some day you will read in the papers that D. L.
Moody, of East Northfield, is dead.  Don't you
believe a word of it!  At that moment I shall be
more alive than I am now.
I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the
Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may
die. That which is born of the Spirit will live
forever. --Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster
       Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001],
      "Eternity")

“Yet as strange a good man as you are, I hope to meet you with a sounder head and better spirit in heaven”. John Flavel to someone he is arguing against.

There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth  throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and in that way is revolutionary terrorism. - Karl Marx interview Chicago Tribune 5 January 1879 quoted in Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy p71