Quotes
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Created: 2024-09-10 16:25
Quotes
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Berkhof
- Man has by nature a perfectly free will, so that he can accept or reject the gospel, as he sees fit, and thus either obtain or fail to obtain the blessings of salvation. Augustine, on the other hand, ascribed the difference to the operation of the grace of God. Said he: “The hearing of the divine call, is produced by divine grace itself, in him who before resisted; and then the love of virtue is kindled in him when he no longer resists.” @berkhofSystematicTheology2004, 458.
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Chekhov
- "Art doesn’t have to solve problems, it only has to formulate them correctly."
Chesterton
Cruelty to animals is cruelty and a vile thing; but cruelty to a man is not cruelty, it is treason. Tyranny over a man is not tyranny, it is rebellion, for man is royal. Now, the practical weakness of the vast mass of modern pity for the poor and the oppressed is precisely that it is merely pity; the pity is pitiful, but not respectful. Men feel that the cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is injustice to equals; nay, it is treachery to comrades. This dark scientific pity, this brutal pity, has an elemental sincerity of its own; but it is entirely useless for all ends of social reform. Democracy swept Europe with the sabre when it was founded upon the Rights of Man. It has done literally nothing at all since it has been founded only upon the wrongs of man. Or, more strictly speaking, its recent failure has been due to its not admitting the existence of any rights, or wrongs, or indeed of any humanity. Evolution (the sinister enemy of revolution) does not especially deny the existence of God; what it does deny is the existence of man. And all the despair about the poor, and the cold and repugnant pity for them, has been largely due to the vague sense that they have literally relapsed into the state of the lower animals.”
- "Don’t ever take down a fence until you know the reason it was put up."
- "True contentment is a real, even active virtue. Not only active but also creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it."
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J. I. Packer
"Jesus Christ constituted Christianity a religion on biblical authority. He is the Church’s Lord and Teacher; and He teaches His people by His Spirit through His written Word... Evangelicalism, however, seeking as it does to acknowledge in all things the supremacy of Scripture, is in principle Christianity at its purest and truest."
— J. I. Packer, Fundamentalism and The Word of God, 21
"The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God’s facts... Machen’s reply was that it was in fact the liberal position that was open to this kind of criticism. The true remedy against Liberalism is for men to think, not less, but more—more deeply, more vigorously, and more clearly."
— J. I. Packer, Fundamentalism and The Word of God, 34-35