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Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Quotes 18 Jul

It is profitable to the pious to business and settled on earth list by settling their minds on any commodious and quiet habitation they should lose the inheritance in heaven - Calvin on Genesis 21

Homosexuality is not  a right of conduct. It is a condition characterised by a psycho sexual propensity towards others of the same sex. Some do not commit sexual acts because they exercise a rigorous control over their physical urges just as some heterosexuals exercise careful control over their physical compulsions. It follows that the homosexual condition is morally neutral. It is only when he expresses his inclination in a sexual act that the homosexual becomes subject to moral censure. - M Schofield, Sociological aspects of homosexuality 1965 page 148
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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. --Charles Livingston Allen (1913-2005) (In Frank S. Mead's _12,000 Religious Quotations_ [1996], "Hope")

Talking about death won't bring it a moment sooner. But it will give us opportunity to prepare for what ies ahead.  If life's greatest certainty is death, wouldn't it be foolish not to prepare for what lies beyond this life? Any life that leaves us unprepared for death is a wasted life. --Randy Alcorn (1954-    ) _The Law of Rewards_ [2003]

"Without Pietism, Protestantism might never have survived the eighteenth century, but with Pietism, it may ultimately cease to be Protestantism." -- Harold O. J. Brown

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