Quotes 2 Jun

The only way back to the tree of life is to trust in the one who hung upon the tree of death.- Story of the Word: Meditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(11)

Sin isn’t always easily identifiable. A heart devoted to idolatry isn’t always observable from the outside. Judas managed to spend years on the inside of the community of disciples without raising a suspicion precisely because wickedness can so easily wear the mask of righteousness. Corruption can adopt the public persona of virtue. Story of the Word: - Jonathan LeemanMeditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(86)

Veritas Christo et ecclesiae - Truth, for Chrisr and the church.- Harvard 1692 motto - Vishal Mangalwadi,  The book that made your World, Page 387

Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well to know God and Jesus Christ which is internal John 17 three and therefore to make Christ , the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ (John 17:3) and and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning, And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom. Let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it him. (Pro 2:3)
Everyone shall so exercise himself in reading the scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein both in theoretical observations of language and logic and in practical spiritual truths, as his tutor shall require according to his ability; seeing the entrance of the word giveth light, it giveth
understanding to the simple. (ps 119 :130) - Harvard 1646 rules and precepts - quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi,  The book that made your World, p387

A post-modernist would be absolutely right in insisting that the Declaration of Independence was wrong. These terms are not self evident Human equality is not self evident anywhere in the world - not even in America. Women and blacks were not treated as equal in America. Equality was never self evident To Hindu sages. To them in inequality was self evident. The question was why are human beings born unequal.- Vishal Mangalwadi,  The book that made your World,  Page 391