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Great/inspirational quotes
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“I’ve never been ‘anti-marriage;’ I’ve been ‘anti-the-Western-legal-system-destroying-men’ . . . I was anti the fact that most women who are trying to be wives today don’t want to be wives to dedicate themselves to a man. That’s what a wife IS." -- Andrew Tate --
“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.”
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
My favorite philosopher!
Adam had a great influence on society, it's because of him we all gotta wear clothes.
Applicable man to God, and woman to husband.
The folly of interpreters has been to foretell times and things by this prophecy of the Revelation, as if God designed to make them prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after that they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event; and His own providence, not the interpreter’s, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things, predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Observations on Daniel and the Apocalypse of John
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Observations on Daniel and the Apocalypse of John
That works well for the prophesies that leave someone around to look back on it, Sir Newton, but not so much for the ones that describe our last flight out of here or the final destruction of earth.
Well, that's taking things a bit to the logical extreme, but I'll play along:
Given that the Adversary and his minions are to be the last ones into the Lake of Fire and will thus be the only ones who would potentially benefit from the pure knowledge of the last flight out or the final destruction, maybe YHWH isn't particularly concerned with whether those characters glean great insights.
Or maybe it'll just be damn obvious to them.
I can't read the dead man's mind, but my hunch is that Newton's point was that it's human folly to obsess about predicting the future.
“Dreams come in more varieties than ice-cream flavors. But just because we want something and yearn to attain it doesn’t mean it’s the dream God planted in our hearts. So how do you know if a dream is really from God or if it’s just an idea that popped into your head? For one thing, God’s dream will never go against His Word, because His Will never contradicts His Word. If the desire you have goes against God’s Word, it’s not His dream. Paul told us the secret to determining if a dream is from God when he said, ‘God . . . is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of – infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes’ (Ephesians 3:20, TLB). God’s dream will rise to the top while everything else will melt away. Just as the ice cream in a root-beer float rises to the top, so does God’s dream for us. His dream rises to the top, first, because it requires faith. If a dream is from God, it will be so big in your life that you can’t do it on your own. If you can accomplish it by yourself, no faith is required.”
Kerry & Chris Shook
One Month to Live, 2008
Kerry & Chris Shook
One Month to Live, 2008
“The rich rule over the poor, And the borrower is slave to the lender.”
Solomon
Proverbs 22:7
Solomon
Proverbs 22:7
“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers, 1973
Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers, 1973
"Religious people cannot tolerate the breaking of their regulations. Any violation of their religious regulations will stir up persecution. When Jesus broke the Sabbath, the Jewish religionists persecuted Him and even sought to kill Him. Eventually, religion succeeded in sentencing Jesus to death. In the book of Acts we see that the situation was the same regarding the persecution of the apostles.
"In like manner, a great many martyrs have suffered persecution at the hand of religion. Now it is our turn to undergo this persecution, this suffering for the building up of the Body of Christ."
Witness Lee (1905-1997)
Life-Study of Colossians
"In like manner, a great many martyrs have suffered persecution at the hand of religion. Now it is our turn to undergo this persecution, this suffering for the building up of the Body of Christ."
Witness Lee (1905-1997)
Life-Study of Colossians
Exactly the sentiments that make me question anyone who claims to follow Christ and also advocates taking up the sword, especially if it's to advance "His" kingdom. It just doesn't fit.
