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“As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live let us remember his instructing observations and their universal applications in literally all that we do: If ye love me keep my commandments. (John 14:15) and Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me. (Matt. 25:40).” -Cecil O. Samuelson, Junior
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“It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.” -Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in 1893. She was an English writer of detective fiction, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. Dorothy Leigh Sayers passed on in 1957.
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“It follows from [Samuel] Rutherford’s thesis that citizens have a moral obligation to resist unjust and tyrannical government. While we must always be subject to the office of the magistrate, we are not to be subject to the man in that office who commands that which is contrary to the Bible. Rutherford suggested that there are three appropriate levels of resistance: First, he must defend himself by protest (in contemporary society this would most often be by legal action); second, he must flee if at all possible; and third, he may use force, if necessary, to defend himself. One should not employ force if he may save himself by flight; nor should one employ flight if he can save himself and defend himself by protest and the employment of constitutional means of redress. Rutherford illustrated this pattern of resistance from the life of David [fleeing from King Saul] as it is recorded in the Old Testament. The civil government, as all life, stands under the law of God . . . when any [political] office commands that which is contrary to the Word of God, those who hold that office abrogate their authority and they are not be obeyed. Justice is based on God’s written Law, back through the New Testament to Moses’ written Law; and the content and authority of that written Law is rooted back to Him who is the final reality. Thus, neither church nor state were equal to, let alone above, that Law. The base for Law is not divided, and no one has the right to place anything, including king, state or church, above the contents of God’s Law.” -Francis August Schaeffer: his Christian Manifesto
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“We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.” -Paul Scherer
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“By making choices consistent with eternal truth, you will develop righteous character.” -Richard G. Scott
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“The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore; new light continually beams from this source of heavenly knowledge, to direct the conduct, and illustrate the work of God and the ways of men; and he will at last leave the world confessing that the more he studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction he had of his own ignorance, and of their inestimable value.” -Walter Scott (Sir)
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“A Jew knows that anti-Semitism is not due to Christianity, because he knows that his people were persecuted before the advent of Christianity.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “Love One Another” (1944)
“The modern atheist is always angered when he hears anything said about God and religion. He would be incapable of such a resentment if God were only a myth.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “Peace of Soul” (1954)
“We do not have to fear atomic bombs; but we do have to fear godless men.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “Thoughts For Daily Living” (1955)
Fulton John Sheen was born as Peter John Sheen on 8 May 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, United States of America. He was an American bishop in the Catholic Church, known for his preaching and his work on television and radio. Fulton John Sheen passed on at 84 years of age on 9 December 1979 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“What would Jesus do?” -Charles Monroe Sheldon
Charles Monroe Sheldon was born in 1857. He was an American minister in the Congregational Churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, “In His Steps,” introduced the principle of, “What Would Jesus Do?” Charles Monroe Sheldon passed on in 1946.
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The Moon of Mahomet
Arose and it shall set;
While blazoned as on Heaven’s immortal Noon
The Cross leads generations on.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing which is the state. How bad a choice that is let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.” -Samuel M. Shoemaker
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“God helps those who help themselves.” -Algernon Sidney: “Discourses on Government” (1698), Chapter 2
Algernon Sidney was born in 1622. He was an English politician. Algernon Sidney passed on in 1683.
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“God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Gimpel the Fool” (1957)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born as Izaak Zynger on 21 November 1902 in Leoncin, Congress Poland. He was a Polish-American novelist. Isaac Bashevis Singer passed on at 88 years of age on 24 July 1991 in Surfside, Florida, United States of America.
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“Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.” -Joseph R. Sizoo
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“Glorious the song, when God’s the theme.” -Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart was born in 1722. Christopher Smart passed on in 1771.
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“One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought of truth of poetry and of the religious spirit God eternally geometrizes.” -David Eugene Smith
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“Much of the sorrow and distress that is afflicting . . . mankind is traceable to the fact that they have ignored (God’s) admonition to keep the Sabbath day holy.” -Pres. George Albert Smith, CR October 1935, page 120; as quoted by Elder Ear. C. Tingey, CR April, 1996, page 13
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“Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God’s promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.” -Hannah Whitall Smith: letter
Hannah Whitall Smith was born in 1832. Hannah Whitall Smith passed on in 1911.
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“I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.” -Minnie Smith
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“If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be “a little maid” to Naaman the Syrian, for the honor of God’s prophets, or a little child, for Christ’s sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.” -Samuel Francis Smith: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 123
Our fathers’ God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee I sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
-Samuel Francis Smith: “America,” as quoted in “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” (1919)
Samuel Francis Smith was born in 1808. Samuel Francis Smith passed on in 1895.
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“The clergy are allowed about twenty-six hours every year for the instruction of their fellow creatures.” -Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith was born in 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. He became a wit, an essayist, and an Anglican clergyman. In 1802, he cofounded, “The Edinburgh Review.” Sydney Smith passed on in 1845.
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“Among us I am happy to say old age is honorable and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here for a wise and glorious purpose and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.” -Lorenzo Snow
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“Julia Ward Howe was talking to a distinguished senator. She asked him to interest himself in the case of a person who needed help. The senator answered, ‘Julia, I have become so busy, I can no longer concern myself with individuals.’ She replied, ‘That’s remarkable. Even God hasn’t reached that stage yet.’” -Ralph W. Sockman
“The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.” -Ralph W. Sockman
Ralph Washington Sockman was born on 1 October 1889 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Zellah Endly. He became a senior pastor of United Methodist Christ Church in New York City and a radio personality (1928 - 1962). Ralph Washington Sockman passed on at 80 years of age on 29 August 1970 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Some have staggered over the doctrine of eternal punishment, because they could not see how that could be consistent with God’s goodness. I have only one question to ask concerning that: Does God reveal it in the Scriptures? Then believe it, and leave to him the vindication of his own consistency. If we do not see it to be so, it will be nonetheless so because we are blind.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit” (1903), Volume 49
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The divine service is not a thing of a few hours and a few places but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord and every place and thing as consecrated as the tabernacle and its golden candlestick.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, also known as C. H. Spurgeon, was born in 1834. He was an English Baptist Christian preacher. Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed on in 1892.
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“The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.” -David C. Stolinsky: “American: A Christian Country,” published in the “New Oxford Review” (July - August 1994)
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“Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as divine revelation in the college ? . . . Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?” -Joseph Story: Vidal versus Girard’s Executors (1844)
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“Good conduct arises out of good doctrine. It is only when we have grasped clearly who we are in Christ, that the desire will grow within us to live a life that is worthy of our calling and fitting to our character as God’s new society.” -John R. W. Stott
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“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America. She was a daughter of Lyman Beecher and a sister of Henry Ward Beecher. She was married to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. She became a novelist and a philanthropist. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels and travel memoirs, as well as collections of articles and letters. She is perhaps best known for her novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe passed on at 85 years of age on 1 July 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America.
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He paints the lily of the field
Perfumes each lily bell.
If he so loves the little flowers
I know he loves me well.
-Maria Straus
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“The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament.” -Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was born in 1882. Igor Stravinsky passed on in 1971.
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“A Christian old age is the best thing in the world.” -Sidney Strong (Reverend)
“A good old age becomes mellow and ripe. There is less of irritability more of contentment. Children are a joy to a good old age. God is nearer.” -Sidney Strong (Reverend)
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“Fellow-graduates: duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.” -Anne Sullivan (June 1886), valedictorian speech to graduating class of Perkins School for the Blind, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan was born on 14 April 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became known as a lifelong aid to Helen Adams Keller. Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ Sullivan passed on at 70 years of age on 20 October 1936 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States of America.
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“The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.” -David Swing
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“As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live let us remember his instructing observations and their universal applications in literally all that we do: If ye love me keep my commandments. (John 14:15) and Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me. (Matt. 25:40).” -Cecil O. Samuelson, Junior
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“It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.” -Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in 1893. She was an English writer of detective fiction, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. Dorothy Leigh Sayers passed on in 1957.
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“It follows from [Samuel] Rutherford’s thesis that citizens have a moral obligation to resist unjust and tyrannical government. While we must always be subject to the office of the magistrate, we are not to be subject to the man in that office who commands that which is contrary to the Bible. Rutherford suggested that there are three appropriate levels of resistance: First, he must defend himself by protest (in contemporary society this would most often be by legal action); second, he must flee if at all possible; and third, he may use force, if necessary, to defend himself. One should not employ force if he may save himself by flight; nor should one employ flight if he can save himself and defend himself by protest and the employment of constitutional means of redress. Rutherford illustrated this pattern of resistance from the life of David [fleeing from King Saul] as it is recorded in the Old Testament. The civil government, as all life, stands under the law of God . . . when any [political] office commands that which is contrary to the Word of God, those who hold that office abrogate their authority and they are not be obeyed. Justice is based on God’s written Law, back through the New Testament to Moses’ written Law; and the content and authority of that written Law is rooted back to Him who is the final reality. Thus, neither church nor state were equal to, let alone above, that Law. The base for Law is not divided, and no one has the right to place anything, including king, state or church, above the contents of God’s Law.” -Francis August Schaeffer: his Christian Manifesto
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“We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.” -Paul Scherer
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“By making choices consistent with eternal truth, you will develop righteous character.” -Richard G. Scott
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“The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore; new light continually beams from this source of heavenly knowledge, to direct the conduct, and illustrate the work of God and the ways of men; and he will at last leave the world confessing that the more he studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction he had of his own ignorance, and of their inestimable value.” -Walter Scott (Sir)
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“A Jew knows that anti-Semitism is not due to Christianity, because he knows that his people were persecuted before the advent of Christianity.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “Love One Another” (1944)
“The modern atheist is always angered when he hears anything said about God and religion. He would be incapable of such a resentment if God were only a myth.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “Peace of Soul” (1954)
“We do not have to fear atomic bombs; but we do have to fear godless men.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “Thoughts For Daily Living” (1955)
Fulton John Sheen was born as Peter John Sheen on 8 May 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, United States of America. He was an American bishop in the Catholic Church, known for his preaching and his work on television and radio. Fulton John Sheen passed on at 84 years of age on 9 December 1979 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“What would Jesus do?” -Charles Monroe Sheldon
Charles Monroe Sheldon was born in 1857. He was an American minister in the Congregational Churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, “In His Steps,” introduced the principle of, “What Would Jesus Do?” Charles Monroe Sheldon passed on in 1946.
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The Moon of Mahomet
Arose and it shall set;
While blazoned as on Heaven’s immortal Noon
The Cross leads generations on.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing which is the state. How bad a choice that is let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.” -Samuel M. Shoemaker
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“God helps those who help themselves.” -Algernon Sidney: “Discourses on Government” (1698), Chapter 2
Algernon Sidney was born in 1622. He was an English politician. Algernon Sidney passed on in 1683.
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“God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Gimpel the Fool” (1957)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born as Izaak Zynger on 21 November 1902 in Leoncin, Congress Poland. He was a Polish-American novelist. Isaac Bashevis Singer passed on at 88 years of age on 24 July 1991 in Surfside, Florida, United States of America.
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“Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.” -Joseph R. Sizoo
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“Glorious the song, when God’s the theme.” -Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart was born in 1722. Christopher Smart passed on in 1771.
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“One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought of truth of poetry and of the religious spirit God eternally geometrizes.” -David Eugene Smith
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“Much of the sorrow and distress that is afflicting . . . mankind is traceable to the fact that they have ignored (God’s) admonition to keep the Sabbath day holy.” -Pres. George Albert Smith, CR October 1935, page 120; as quoted by Elder Ear. C. Tingey, CR April, 1996, page 13
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“Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God’s promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.” -Hannah Whitall Smith: letter
Hannah Whitall Smith was born in 1832. Hannah Whitall Smith passed on in 1911.
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“I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.” -Minnie Smith
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“If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be “a little maid” to Naaman the Syrian, for the honor of God’s prophets, or a little child, for Christ’s sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.” -Samuel Francis Smith: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 123
Our fathers’ God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee I sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
-Samuel Francis Smith: “America,” as quoted in “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” (1919)
Samuel Francis Smith was born in 1808. Samuel Francis Smith passed on in 1895.
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“The clergy are allowed about twenty-six hours every year for the instruction of their fellow creatures.” -Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith was born in 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. He became a wit, an essayist, and an Anglican clergyman. In 1802, he cofounded, “The Edinburgh Review.” Sydney Smith passed on in 1845.
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“Among us I am happy to say old age is honorable and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here for a wise and glorious purpose and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.” -Lorenzo Snow
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“Julia Ward Howe was talking to a distinguished senator. She asked him to interest himself in the case of a person who needed help. The senator answered, ‘Julia, I have become so busy, I can no longer concern myself with individuals.’ She replied, ‘That’s remarkable. Even God hasn’t reached that stage yet.’” -Ralph W. Sockman
“The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.” -Ralph W. Sockman
Ralph Washington Sockman was born on 1 October 1889 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Zellah Endly. He became a senior pastor of United Methodist Christ Church in New York City and a radio personality (1928 - 1962). Ralph Washington Sockman passed on at 80 years of age on 29 August 1970 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Some have staggered over the doctrine of eternal punishment, because they could not see how that could be consistent with God’s goodness. I have only one question to ask concerning that: Does God reveal it in the Scriptures? Then believe it, and leave to him the vindication of his own consistency. If we do not see it to be so, it will be nonetheless so because we are blind.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit” (1903), Volume 49
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The divine service is not a thing of a few hours and a few places but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord and every place and thing as consecrated as the tabernacle and its golden candlestick.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, also known as C. H. Spurgeon, was born in 1834. He was an English Baptist Christian preacher. Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed on in 1892.
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“The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.” -David C. Stolinsky: “American: A Christian Country,” published in the “New Oxford Review” (July - August 1994)
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“Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as divine revelation in the college ? . . . Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?” -Joseph Story: Vidal versus Girard’s Executors (1844)
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“Good conduct arises out of good doctrine. It is only when we have grasped clearly who we are in Christ, that the desire will grow within us to live a life that is worthy of our calling and fitting to our character as God’s new society.” -John R. W. Stott
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“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America. She was a daughter of Lyman Beecher and a sister of Henry Ward Beecher. She was married to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. She became a novelist and a philanthropist. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels and travel memoirs, as well as collections of articles and letters. She is perhaps best known for her novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe passed on at 85 years of age on 1 July 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America.
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He paints the lily of the field
Perfumes each lily bell.
If he so loves the little flowers
I know he loves me well.
-Maria Straus
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“The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament.” -Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was born in 1882. Igor Stravinsky passed on in 1971.
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“A Christian old age is the best thing in the world.” -Sidney Strong (Reverend)
“A good old age becomes mellow and ripe. There is less of irritability more of contentment. Children are a joy to a good old age. God is nearer.” -Sidney Strong (Reverend)
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“Fellow-graduates: duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.” -Anne Sullivan (June 1886), valedictorian speech to graduating class of Perkins School for the Blind, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan was born on 14 April 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became known as a lifelong aid to Helen Adams Keller. Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ Sullivan passed on at 70 years of age on 20 October 1936 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States of America.
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“The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.” -David Swing
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