QUOTE for the day

[Matthias]

“Skeptics demand miracles to prove the existence of God because they fail to see that their own existence is miraculous.” - Michael J. Svigel

 

[Matthias]

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.” - Anthony the Great

 

[Riven]

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.” - Anthony the Great

It's practically prophetic.

 

[Matthias]

“Evil preaches tolerance until it becomes dominant. From that point on, it seeks to silence the good.” - John Henry Newman

 

[Jay Ross]

"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley 1703-1791.

 

[Matthias]

“The worst thing we can bring to a religious controversy is anger.” - Matthew Henry

 

[Riven]

“The worst thing we can bring to a religious controversy is anger.” - Matthew Henry

I got kicked out of a religious school when I was just four years old. If that's not foreshadowing, I don't know what is.

 

[Matthias]

“There is no one too broken for Jesus to heal.” - Shane Pruitt

 

[Matthias]

“Make it your goal in life to be so like Christ that people will be attracted to Him through you.” - David Jeremiah

 

[Matthias]

“Our neighbor in Jesus’ eyes is simply a fellow human being who is in need.” - John Stott

 

[Lambano]

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.” - Anthony the Great

That reminds me a quote from one of my favorite sci fi writers, Larry Niven:

"The majority is always sane."

Questionable. I thought about it some more: If insanity is characterized by aberrant behavior, then "normal" baseline behavior is defined by the majority. Unless an objective standard for expected right-or-wrong behavior really exists. But that's a whole 'nother thread.

 

[Matthias]

“Belief in God’s promises sustains us through dark times.” - C.H. Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“Christlikeness is visible in character, not merely words.” - Diane Langberg

 

[Behold]

Kindness: is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

 

[Matthias]

“That minister will never hit hearts who shoots over heads.” - Thomas Watson

 

[Matthias]

“It is of more consequence to a preacher to know his Bible well than all the languages or books in the world.” - Francis Asbury

 

[Matthias]

“Children can be taught to succeed at everything and still not know why they live. A good education must answer life’s deepest question.” - Oscar Ortiz Duarte

 

[Matthias]

“Nothing corrupts the church faster than the lust for the coercive powers of temporal authority.” - Steve Bezner

 

[Matthias]

“The culture doesn’t dictate truth, the gospel dictates truth.” - Voddie Bauchman (RIP)

 

[Matthias]

“A people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.” - Hannah Arendt