The fanatics and the bombers do not represent a resurgence of unreformed, fundamentalist Islam, but its death rattle. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.295
We often pray best, when we can speak least. There are times when the heart is too big to speak: and the spirit itself maketh intercession for the saints, and that too according to the will of God, with groanings that cannot be uttered.- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG
The type of thinking down today as scientific, with its emphasis upon experiment and mathematical formulation, arose in one culture - Western Europe - and in no other. - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p17
When once the light of Divine Providence has
illumined the believer's soul, he is relieved and
set free, not only from the extreme fear and
anxiety which formerly oppressed him, but
from all care.
For as he justly shudders at the idea of chance,
so he can confidently commit himself to God.
--John Calvin (1509-1564)
_Institutes Of The Christian Religion_ [1536]
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us,
unless He has a specific plan by which great
blessing can come out of the difficulty.
--Peter Marshall (1902-1949)
(In George Sweeting's
_Who Said That?_ [1995], "Adversity")
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