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New Jerusalem Quotes

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Robert G. Ingersoll
“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd, crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem, and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds.”
Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

Jean-Christophe Valtat
“... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...”
Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos

Richard J. Mouw
“Las Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.”
Richard J. Mouw, Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion

Enock Maregesi
“Wenye dhambi watafufuliwa na wataungana na Ibilisi kuipiga Yerusalemu Mpya itakayokuwa inang'inia hewani, huku Yesu na watakatifu wote wakiwa hawana silaha yoyote; lakini vilevile wakiwa hawapigwi kwa silaha yoyote.

Shetani atakapoonekana kushindwa, Yesu atawasha ‘kibiriti cha kiroho’. Mafuta yote yaliyopo ardhini dunia nzima yatalipuka na kugeuza ardhi yote kuwa ziwa la moto, na hivyo wenye dhambi wote kupata aibu ya milele.”
Enock Maregesi

“If he who hath posterity in Sion and kindred in Jerusalem hath been called happy, verily how much happier are we, for we have posterity in the heavenly Jerusalem. Verily.....”
A J and Albertus Schwengler: Wensinck, Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.