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Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

The ministry is another kind of business than too many excellent preachers take it to be.

They called in medics, but two got killed trying to get to Dole.

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

Our wedding on Necker. A week later Sam said of a friend's wedding, "But they can't be getting married. They haven't had any children yet." Private Collection.

SIR BENJAMIN. Perhaps, Sir, you are not a Doctor. SIR OLIVER. Truly Sir I am to thank you for my degree If I am.

notice these inconsistencies: Christian and anti-Christian polemicists

Small wonder that the gibe of an eighteenth-century Armenian banker that 'you Greeks change your patriarch more often than your shirt' struck home uncomfortably.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

Without the consciousness of guilt, existence had become so bland in Paradise that Eve welcomed the pungency of Original Sin.

Raymond also distrusted all other living people because they had not warned his father of his mother.

Stereotyping is dangerous, but generalizing is a fair guide at the national level.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

Richard Elliott Friedman

Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918)

If you were from a state that didn't fight for the Confederacy, you were a Yankee.