"Stop
and ask yourselves, 'What am I doing?' You will be dead long before
this world will ever be put right. What therefore will happen to you?" - Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones (1899-1981)
"Maybe the prophets wanted the rich to invite the poor into their homes, maybe they wanted the poor to be befriended and supported by gentle arms of friends. Maybe friendliness. But at least justice, at least the rights of the poor respected." - Dr. Lewis Smedes (1921-2002)
"It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God for one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your souls, and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverances, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; and you will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions and millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this Almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that it is all but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite." - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
"Maybe the prophets wanted the rich to invite the poor into their homes, maybe they wanted the poor to be befriended and supported by gentle arms of friends. Maybe friendliness. But at least justice, at least the rights of the poor respected." - Dr. Lewis Smedes (1921-2002)
"It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God for one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your souls, and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverances, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; and you will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions and millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this Almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that it is all but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite." - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
"You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." (source: Oliver Cromwell)
"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?" - R.C. Sproul (From Faith Alone)
"People like Derek ... can be lots of fun. Except when you pop their bubble about their unrealistic grandiosity and their irresponsibility. Then you become a "wet blanket." It's revealing to talk to the "wet blanket" who is married to a practicing child. No job is more tiring." Boundaries, by Cloud & Townsend
"Boundaries are a "litmus test" for the quality of our relationships...So what does Debbie, whose husband is an avowed "boundary buster," do? Will her husband carry out his threat to walk out on her? He might. We can't control the other person. But if the only thing keeping Debbie's husband at home is her total compliance, is this a marriage at all?" Boundaries, by Cloud & Townsend
"95% of hurt feelings are strategy on the hurtees part." - Dr. Wayne Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings
"A wicked generation is a generation of vipers, and ought to be told so." - Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
"[The proposed International Criminal Court] repudiates the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence, and cancels the 4th of July...What are the limits on the ICC? There are none. It's insane." - Professor Charles Rice, Notre Dame University School of Law (Source)
"Dysfunctional families are known for a certain type of boundary problem called triangulation. It goes something like this: Person A is angry at Person B. Person A does not tell Person B. Person A calls Person C and gripes about Person B. Person C enjoys Person A's confidence and listens whenever A wants to play the triangle game. By this time, Person B, feeling lonely, calls C, and in passing, mentions the conflict with A. Person C becomes the confidant of B as well as A. Persons A and B have not resolved their conflict and C has two "friends." - Boundaries, by Dr. John Townsend and Dr. Henry Clouad
"We are presently working discretely with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world." - Arnold Toynbee, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1031 (as quoted in the United Nations Exposed)
"Look more at justification than sanctification." - Thomas Wilcox (1627-1687) , from his sermon Honey Out of the Rock
"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the
same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small
there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big
staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover
story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk
about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher
Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as
quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)
