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James Ussher

"There is no dallying with God ."

Source : James Ussher, Joseph Crabb, Stanley Gower (1660). “Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640: Of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop. Now minister in Dorchester”, p.9

James Ussher

#Procrastination Quotes

“Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.”
“Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.”
“They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.”
“The Bible says that God gave this earth to the sons of men ... and when [Adam] turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look where it left God. If left Him on the outside looking in ... He had no legal right to do anything about it, did He? ... He had injected Himself illegally into the earth -- what Satan had intended for Him to do was to fall for it -- pull off an illegal act and turn the light off in God, and subordinate God to himself ... He intended to get God into such a trap that He couldn't get out.”
“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
“Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lance Armstrong from May 19, 2011
“Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.”
“One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.”

"There is no dallying with God ."

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