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“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”
― John Piper

“The truth is that the life-purpose of Jesus discovered by modern liberalism is not the life purpose of the real Jesus, but merely represents those elements in the teaching of Jesus--isolated and misinterpreted--which happen to agree with the modern program. It is not Jesus, then, who is the real authority, but the modern principle by which the selection within Jesus' recorded teaching has been made. Certain isolated ethical principles of the Sermon on the Mount are accepted, not at all because they are teachings of Jesus, but because they agree with modern ideas.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“You can not lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself.”
― Karyn Purvis

“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
― Thomas Sowell

“He understood (what so many fautlessly polite people do not understand) that a stiff apology is a second insult. He understood that the injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”
― Igor Stravinsky

“The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had… his photocopier…”
― Humphrey Lyttelton

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”
― Sydney Smith

“Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts—it’s able to endure temptations—because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they’re] not there.”
― Michael Horton

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity

“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
― Garrison Keillor

“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
― Niels Bohr

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
― Fred Hoyle

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
― Aristotle

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
― Joseph Joubert

“We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.”
― C.P.E. Bach

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
― Henry Ward Beecher