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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Thanks are the highest form of thought, 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.)

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” -- G. K. Chesterton

“Satan has as many translators as there are frivolous and impudent minds that handle the Scriptures.” -- Unknown

“Biblical illiteracy in the American churches is astonishing, bewildering, staggering, appalling.” -- Peter Van Kleeck Jr.

“A mind directed entirely by its own reasoning will never be sure of anything.” -- Tzvi Freeman

“Every generation has to reinvent the wheel and then demonize the previous generation’s wheel in order to vindicate their new rendition.” -- Unknown

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” -- Golda Meir

“The politicization of evil is worse than privately held stupid ideas like racism or economic collectivism.” -- Elyssa Lloyd

“If you want to protect your child, teach them respect.”

“We believe what we believe about the Bible because the Bible compels us to believe it.” -- Peter Van Kleeck Jr.

“When you get to the viability standard, we share that standard with the People’s Republic of China and North Korea.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts, on abortion

“Happy is the man who possesses the Bible! Happier still is he who reads it! Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it and makes it the rule of his faith and practice.” -- J. C. Ryle

“I urge you let Scripture interpret Scripture. Do not let ideas come outside of that book, and then tempt you to change its meaning.” -- John Robinson, 1620, to the Pilgrims departing for the Americas

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