John Berridge famous quotes

All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
-- John Berridge

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A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.
-- John Berridge

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Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!
-- John Berridge

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Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.
-- John Berridge

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The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.
-- John Berridge

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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Mutability is written upon all things.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.