If you want to influence people, tell the what they want to hear. - Theodore Dalrymple, The Knife Went In, P. 187
Scripture is medicine for our sick souls. The label says 'Take daily' not "Take when you feel like it!' If we do only the latter it is likely that we will never 'feel better'! - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p.49
... the driving impulse of Newton's scientific work was , as we have seen, to defend Christian faith against what he saw as an encroaching mechanistic materialism. - quoted in - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.75
By 1930, only about 25% of the American population lived on farms, and only 10% was involved in agriculture. By 1982, only about 2.4% of the American population lived on farms, and only 1.6% was involved in agriculture. Yet those 3,773,000 people raises enough food to feed over 234 million Americans and still have huge surpluses to ship overseas and fill government warehouses. The average American farm worker today raises enough food to feed himself and over 61 others. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p.86
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