Quotes 10 Jul

.. the government, by subsidising what were once considered irregular unions has actually encouraged and promoted them, turning itself in the process into a surrogate father on a vast scale.  - Theodore Dalrymple, Litter, p.112

Prayer is not intended to produce a change in God, but in us. - Robert Dabney, Systematic Theology.

The man in the skiff at the stern of a man of mar, does not pull the ship to himself, in hauling at the line, but pulls the skiff to the ship. The line is prayer. Prayer does not draw God down to us, but draws us up to God, and thus establishes the connection. - Tin Shenton,quoting Rowland Hill in Rowland Hill, The second Whitefield, p.137