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Monday, October 03, 2022

Our doubts are traitors, and other quotes

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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -- William Shakespeare

“The devil always strikes with two arrows: for with the one he entices to vain glory, with the other to murder.” -- attributed to Thomas Aquinas

“Sin is sin even if it be not seen.” -- Old proverb

“The palm of folly belongs to the man who spends his very last shilling in buying a purse.” -- Punch

“If you want to do Christian Apologetics right it’s time to abandon modern evangelical text-critical approach and embrace the robust historic Christian apologetic of Confessional Bibliology.” -- Peter Van Kleeck, Jr.

“The most wonderful places in the world to be are: in someone’s thoughts, someone’s prayers, and someone’s heart.” -- Unknown

“Meditation and prayer are like two turtles-doves—if you separate one, the other dies.” -- Thomas Watson

“Theology is doctrine or teaching of living to God.” -- William Ames (1576-1633)

“The reason is that a principle is great rather in power than in extent; hence that which was small at the start turns out a giant at the end.” -- Aristotle, “On the Heavens”

“A small error at the outset can lead to great errors in the final conclusions.” -- Thomas Aquinas, “On Being and Essence”

“Dry orthodoxy disconnected from local churches leads to death as certainly as a liberal denial of the veracity of the Scriptures.” -- Hershael York

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