”Love and its exercise is the principal grace and duty that is required among, and expected from, the saints of God, especially as they are engaged in church-fellowship. What is this love? It is a fruit of the Spirit of God, an effect of faith, whereby believers, being knit together by the strongest bonds of affection, upon the account of their interest in one head , Jesus Christ, and participating of one Spirit, do delight in, value and esteem each other, and are in a constant readiness for all those regular duties whereby the temporal, spiritual and eternal good of one another may be promoted”.- John Owen
'The knife of the guillotine strikes you in this place,' she
said, rapidly passing the nail of her little finger round the young
man's neck and then drawing it away. 'The scar is quite a thin one,
like a red thread...But only at the first blow. When many people are
executed at the same time the blade soon becomes blunt. Teeth are
formed on it...If you are executed try to be one of the first.'
--Mark Aldanov, _The Ninth Thermidor_ 1923
There are those who have no luck. Christopher Columbus cannot attach his name to his discovery. Dr. Guillotin cannot detach his from his invention.--Victor Hugo, 1830
I, of all men, am perhaps the subject of the deepest depression at times.- Charles Spurgeon
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. --Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
_The Power of Myth_ [1988]; Episode 2, Chapter 22
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