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Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Fourth Edition

by John J. Collins

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Dec 23, 2025 06:31PM

“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity, then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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“Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God's commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love.”
― Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict

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“The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.”
― Kenneth Minogue, On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue

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“Christ came down from heaven because no power other than that of God Himself was able to accomplish the work that was to be done. Incarnation and atoning work are thus set in the closest possible relation to one another; both belong to one scheme.”
― Gustaf Aulén, Christus Victor

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“God the Holy Ghost, being barren in God—that is to say, not producing another Divine Person—is become fruitful by Mary, whom He has espoused. It was with her, in her, and of her that He produced His Masterpiece, which is God made Man, and that He goes on producing daily, to the end of the world, the predestinate and the members of the Body of that adorable Head. This is the reason why He, the Holy Ghost, the more He finds Mary, His dear and inseparable spouse in any soul, the more active and mighty He becomes in producing Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

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