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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Deeper convictions, higher praise, 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.)

"Deeper convictions lead to higher praise." -- H. B. Charles

"Encouragers have Christ-like sight and a Christ-like heart." -- Ian Hamilton

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." -- Ronald Reagan

"Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it." -- Harry Truman

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business." -- Calvin Coolidge

"It was absolutely necessary either that the sinner should suffer in his own person, or in that of a substitute. Jesus became this substitute; He stood virtually in the sinner’s place, and endured in His holy body and soul the punishment due to Him; for He "was numbered with the transgressors." -- J. C. Philpot

"Churches who won’t tolerate crying children in the worship service won’t experience crying adults in the worship service, either.‬" -- Bart Barber

"We call ourselves a ‘family church’ and then send the babies to the nursery, the children to children’s church and the youth to their own service." -- Paul Fries

"Without Christ the institution of religion is empty and evil, but without the institution as a means of mitigating it the agony in the desert of selfhood is not viable for most men." -- William Barrett

"Leisure is the basis of culture." -- Josef Pieper

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." -- Milton Friedman

"They all know how they are going to vote; the rest is political grandstanding." -- Heard, in someone assessing party politics re the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination

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