"The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency."

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Source : Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

Simon Greenleaf

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“How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?”
“You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.”
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjaminâ€™s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.”
“I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.”
“The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”
“And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.”
“I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.”
“In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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