"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." -- Augustine of Hippo
"That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors." -- Charles Spurgeon
"It is a poor sermon that gives no offence; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher." -- George Whitefield
"How can someone scripturally exhort if he has no taught those things which form the basis of biblical exhortation?" -- Albert N. Martin
"Unless we have the spirit of the prophets resting upon us, the mantle which we wear is nothing but a rough garment to deceive." -- Charles H. Spurgeon
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle
"Consistency is a virtue; but it is not the only virtue, and people who have never changed their minds may have simply stopped thinking." -- Richard S. Arnold
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life." -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
"It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." -- Lynn Connell (and it's even better to find some going in the right direction and walk with them.)
"There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one." -- Thomas Moore in The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life (Thanks, Will)
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