"In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God."

-- Joseph Alleine

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“If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.”

Source : William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.57, University of Georgia Press
“Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.”
“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”
“Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.”
“While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.”

Source : "Carolyn Porco: Keeping an Eye in Saturn". Interview with Bjorn Carey, www.space.com. February 14, 2005.
“As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,”
“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”

Source : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”

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