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Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Quotes 12 Jul

To be out of the hospital, to be out of the lunatic
asylum, to be out of prison, to be out of hell--do
we ever glorify God for these things?
     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 26 [1880]

We wept when we were born though all around us
smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all
around us weep.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 20 [1874]

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves,
it is because self-knowledge is painful and
we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
     --Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
      _The Perennial Philosophy_ [1946], Chapter 9

Television is talking heads discussing interminably what to do and seek to prove what they must ever doubt. -  Malcolm Muggeridge, Something beautiful for God.

The spiritual intention of the doctrine of creation relies solely in the assertion of the dependence of all existence upon the will of God. - William Temple

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