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"A peaceful man does more good than a learned man."

"All our peace in this life is found in humbly enduring suffering rather than being free from it."

"Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you."

"Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it."

"He who clings to a creature will fall with its frailty, but he who gives himself to Jesus will ever be strengthened."

Bruce's uncertainty about the authenticity of 1 Thess 2:15-16 is a bit surprising to me, given everything else I've read from him. I get that reconciling these statements to Rom 11 is tricky, but his difficulty struck me as uncharacteristic.

Book 2 toward my 2026 goal of spending more time with the medievals.

"I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it."

"All men are frail, but you must admit that none is more frail than yourself."

"We ought to read simple and devout books as willingly as learned and profound ones."

"It is much safer to be subject than it is to command."

"Fire tempers iron and temptation steels the just."

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Technically I'm reading an eBook version off monergism.com, not the Christian Focus hardcover. What am I, made of money?

Third time's the charm. 😅

One chapter to go!