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this week 7/22



This week I'm posting some of my favorite one-line quotes...  

“Man’s nature [or, heart] is a perpetual factory of idols."  (John Calvin)

“The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."   (C. S. Lewis)

“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”  (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)

"With God there are no little people."  (Francis Schaeffer)

"Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.”   (Os Guinness)

"Grace is glory begun.  Glory is grace perfected."  (Jonathan Edwards)

"This is not the best of all possible worlds, but the best way to the best of all possible worlds." (Norm Geisler)

“He who marries the spirit of the age is likely to be a widower in the next.”  (Soren Kierkegaard)

"Christian doctrine lies at the very roots of faith."  (J. Gresham Machen)

"We are immortal till our work is done."  (George Whitefield)

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin." (C. S. Lewis)

"We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace."  (Martin Luther)

"Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy -- it's supposed to make you married."  (Frank Pittman)

"It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

“The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord." (George Mueller)

That's a wrap!  In "this week" I post some of the things I'm reading and stuff I'm thinking about, usually once a week.  To receive my posts by email you may subscribe above, just below my profile.  

Photo above, detail of the Mountain Church, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta.





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