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"This is an amazing book, and it takes time if we are going to receive all the spiritual study we need to liken the teachings of Jesus to our own lives." — Apr 30, 2019 09:05PM
"This is an amazing book, and it takes time if we are going to receive all the spiritual study we need to liken the teachings of Jesus to our own lives." — Apr 30, 2019 09:05PM
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in July 2008

I cannot believe all I am learning from this book. Of great interest were the two great obsessions of William Wilberforce:
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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Cut me off from the Church? They can't do that! I repent do damn fast!”
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“A sermon should be like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.”
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“If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.”
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“I believe if I had a house in hell and a house in St. George, I'd rent out the one in St. George and live in hell. I really would.”
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