"Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day."

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Source : John Donne (2003). “One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne”, p.267, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

John Donne

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“I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.”
“Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1948). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray”, p.146, CCEL
“So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.”
“The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of â€˜outsourcingâ€™â€¦Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.”
“One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.”

Source : NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”
“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
“...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences; for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment to his Observations, to his own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.”

Source : "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".
“I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Mar 29, 2014

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