"[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau."

-- Oliver D. Crisp

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“In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.”

Source : Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.27, Harvest House Publishers
“I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.”
“My job now is to not give up, to continue advocating and fighting for the issues Secretary Clinton ran her campaign on. I have to do that to show young girls in this country that they truly can grow up to be whatever they want to be - they need to know that they can grow up to be president.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?”

Source : "Are these Britain's greatest wits ... or twits?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.
“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, â€˜Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,â€™ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, itâ€™s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. Itâ€™s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way weâ€™re going.”
“I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.”
“In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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