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-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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“It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.”
“If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”
“We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.”
“Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.”
“I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.”
“To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.”
“I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.”
“I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that”

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