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“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”
― Robert Anderson

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.”
― Robert Anderson

“Here is something to set both critics and Christians thinking. A decree of a Persian king was deemed to be divine, and any attempt to thwart it was usually met by prompt and drastic punishment; and yet the decree directing the rebuilding of the Temple, issued by King Cyrus in the zenith of his power, was thwarted for seventeen years by petty local governors. How was this? The explanation is that until the very last day of the seventy years of “the Desolations” had expired, God would not permit one stone to be laid upon another on Mount Moriah. Dismissing from our minds, therefore, all mere theories on this subject, we arrive at the following definitely ascertained facts:”
― Sir Robert Anderson, The Coming Prince

“Here is something to set both critics and Christians thinking. A decree of a Persian king was deemed to be divine, and any attempt to thwart it was usually met by prompt and drastic punishment; and yet the decree directing the rebuilding of the Temple, issued by King Cyrus in the zenith of his power, was thwarted for seventeen years by petty local governors. How was this? The explanation is that until the very last day of the seventy years of “the Desolations” had expired, God would not permit one stone to be laid upon another on Mount Moriah.”
― Robert Anderson, The Coming Prince: The Marvelous Prophecy of Daniel's Seventy Weeks Concerning the Antichrist

“That decree was issued by Artaxerxes, King of Persia, in the month Nisan in the 20th year of his reign, i.e. B.C. 445. 4. The city was actually built in pursuance of that decree. 5. The Julian date of 1st Nisan 445 was the 14th March. 6. Sixty-nine weeks of years – i.e. 173,880 days – reckoned from the 14th March B.C. 445, ended on the 6th April A.D. 32. 7. That day, on which the sixty-nine weeks ended, was the fateful day on which the Lord Jesus rode into Jerusalem in fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9; when, for the first and only occasion in all His earthly sojourn, He was acclaimed as “Messiah the Prince the King, the Son of David.”
― Robert Anderson, The Coming Prince: The Marvelous Prophecy of Daniel's Seventy Weeks Concerning the Antichrist

“Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing for them but judgment, stern and inexorable.”
― Robert Anderson

“Konnichiwa is the greeting you will find most useful here. It is equivalent to “hello” or “good day” in English.”
― Robert Anderson, Rapidly Learn Japanese Speech in 7 Days or Less: Ease Your Way Into Language

“Example sentence こんにちは、はじめまして、私はジョンです。 Konnichiwa, hajimemashite, watashi wa Jon desu. Hello. Nice to meet you. I am John.”
― Robert Anderson, Rapidly Learn Japanese Speech in 7 Days or Less: Ease Your Way Into Language

“Vocabulary はじめまして hajimemashite nice to meet you”
― Robert Anderson, Rapidly Learn Japanese Speech in 7 Days or Less: Ease Your Way Into Language

“Vocabulary おはよう（ございます） ohayō (gozaimasu) good morning こんにちは konnichiwa hello/good day/good afternoon こんばんは kombanwa good evening もしもし moshi-moshi hello (telephone)”
― Robert Anderson, Rapidly Learn Japanese Speech in 7 Days or Less: Ease Your Way Into Language

“All reasoning is basically circular. Logic is a device we use to make the circles as large as possible.”
― Robert Anderson