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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and read more
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.
Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, read more
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas read more
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, read more
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
