Faith makes me certain of what God has promised, assured of what I cannot see. - Paul Levy, Sermon on Hebrews 11 , International Presbyterian Church Ealing, 23 September 2018
Every society begins Stoic and ends Epicurean. - Linette Martin, Practical Praying, p.99
His grandfather's title deed to his croft ... reserves all 'sand and gravel stone and freestone', a clause found useful all over Sutherland when the second duke threw his weight against the founding of the free Church in 1843 and refused to let churches or manses for 'recusants' be built either on his land all with his stone. - David Craig, On the Crofters' Trail, P. 134
'95% of the people here wen over', that is. they joined the Free Church in 1843. A rare exception was a woman who is named her hands after ministers and elders. When most of these men went over, she slaughtered her whole flock except the lucky ones named after the few who stayed. - David Craig, On the Crofters' Trail, P. 135
In 2013, the Huffibgton Post reported that British Muslims give more to charity than any other religious group. On average, a Muslim gives £371 per year, a Jew gives £270, but the Christian gives only £178, and an atheist gives only £116 per year to charity - quoted in Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity, p.51
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