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“Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.”
― William Bates

“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, formulas and catchphrases will not suffice in conveying the richness of the Scriptures.”
― Michael S. Horton

“The more we understand God's truth, the more we are struck by the mystery.”
― Michael S. Horton, The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way