who might have also discovered that frugall Bit of the Old Brittains, which in the bignesse of a Bean could satisfie their thirst and hunger.
“The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by the Book but by the force of arms.”
― The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
― The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
“An older, Puritan approach to Scripture tended to prevail in the American South, where the Bible was regarded as a set of definite, positive laws”
― The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
― The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
“In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the country makes itself remarked, and a coarseness of manners; and, among the intellectual, is the insanity of dialectics.”
― English Traits
― English Traits
“It means that our fallenness now is not an obstacle to enjoying heaven. It is the key ingredient to enjoying heaven.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“It is race, is it not? that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe. Race avails much, if that be true, which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics, and all Saxons are Protestants; that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.”
― English Traits
― English Traits
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