"The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence."

-- James T. Shotwell

#Spiritual Quotes #Sheep Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.”
“Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.”
“But talentâ€”if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”
“I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.”
“After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.”
“Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.”
“The longer you live, the better you get.”

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