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Saturday, December 10, 2022

My tastes are simple, and other quotes

The posting of quotes by human authors does not constitute agreement with either the quotes or their sources. (I try to confirm the sources that I give, but may miss on occasion; please verify if possible.)

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” -- Winston Churchill

“Liberty is more important than government convenience.” -- Mike Landry

“If you take the ‘words’ out of the Bible, you will have nothing left except the cover and the paper it is printed on.  Hence, if the Bible is inspired in any sense, this inspiration must somehow be in the words.” -- Alva J. McClain

“May God give you, for every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise, and a blessing in each trial.” -- Vin Scully

“It is rank hypocrisy to translate from a text that you don’t even believe in.” -- Kent Brandenburg

“We are immortal till our work is done.” -- George Whitefield (in a letter he wrote in 1750 to James Hervey)

“The Election is over. Jesus still reigns.” -- Jared Kennedy

“We don’t have a Bible, and you can’t have one either.” -- Taylor DeSoto, characterizing modern text critical position

“The propensity of a person’s insistence on being called ‘Doctor’ is inversely proportional to the amount of effort expended on the degree and the value of it.” -- Heard

“Most Theological terms were given us by apostate Roman Catholics and High Church of England men, and we Baptists have borrowed their terms and used them like they were sweet morsels for our palates.” -- J. Louis Guthrie

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