"To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure."

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Ben Jonson

#Long Quotes #Treasure Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.”
“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”
“The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.”

Source : Emil Brunner (1931). “The Word and the World”
“If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.”
“Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes Iâ€™d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.”
“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”
“What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?”
“Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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