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“J.I.Packer:“Tradition ...is the fruit of the Spirit’s teaching activity from the ages as God’s people have sought understanding of Scripture.”
― Michael A.G. Haykin, Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church

“Mr. H. G. Wells, who said, ‘It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]

“Though it was not right, and never can be, we understand what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us.”
― Abraham Kuyper, To Be Near Unto God

“he may resolve to save thee, not from affliction and persecution, but in it, and by it.”
― George Virtue, A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) Christian Ethics

“The church is a spiritual organization. . . . It must do all its doings in the Spirit. It is not constitutional regularity, it is not mechanical perfection, that makes the church efficient for its end; it is the Spirit of Christ using the church as his agent. . . . Alas, form and machinery may exist without life and power.18”
― Guy Prentiss Waters, How Jesus Runs the Church