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Saturday, December 04, 2021

It’s not a matter of how much, and other quotes

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“It’s not a matter of how much money we have, but how much the money has us.” -- Heard

“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” -- Henry David Thoreau

“We are convinced that a desire to be more acceptable to the world’s religious bodies has created more problems for Baptists over the years than any other thing they have done.” -- Robert N. Lackey

“If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.” -- popularized by Poor Richard’s Almanack

“Hyper-Calvinism is all house and no door: Arminianism is all door and no house.” -- John Duncan

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” -- Lord Acton

“You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of reality.” -- Ayn Rand

“Even rats have sense enough to forsake a sinking ship.” -- C. R. Powell

“The Old Testament is the cradle in which the Christ child is laid.” -- Martin Luther

“The Gospel should supersede our political and national allegiances.” -- Adam Wyatt

 “Saying you’re a new kind of Christian with a new kind of Christianity is basically saying you’re an old kind of heretic.” -- Burk Parsons

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