Of What Use?
Of what was it to be loved and lose one’s beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? -The Velveteen Rabbit
Category: quote
Made gods
We have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course out of His pure benevolence. -Irenaeus, Against Heresies
Destined
“But before the foundation of the world were we, who, because destined to be in Him, pre-existed in the eye of God before, —we the rational creatures of the Word of God, on whose account we date from the beginning; for ‘in the beginning was the Word.’” -Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen
Ignorance
“More senseless than stones is a man who is steeped in ignorance.” -Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen
NOT UNKNOWN
ALTHOUGH HE IS TO US IN THIS LIFE INVISIBLE AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE NEVERTHELESS HE IS NOT UNKNOWN. -Irenaues, Against Heresies
Sons of God?
According to nature…we are all sons of God, because we have all been created by God. But with respect to obedience and doctrine we are not all the sons of God: those only are so who believe in Him and do His will. And those who do not believe, and do not obey His will,…
The Numinous
It doesn’t take long for the experience of the Numinous to unhinge the mind. -Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
Covenanter Quote
Their antislavery views predated even those of the Quakers. Unlike the Quakers, these were Christian militants, protecting their Underground Railroad stations with both prayer and gunfire. Joseph S. Moore, Founding Sins: How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution PS this is about Presbyterian Covenanters
Patroness
If the former did disobey God, yet the latter was persuaded to be obedient to God, in order that the Virgin Mary might become the patroness (advocata) of the virgin Eve. And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued by a virgin; virginal…
Human Wisdom: a Handmaiden, Not a Mistress
We’ve been working through 1 Corinthians in our evening sermon series at my Church. I’m thinking back through a previous passage I preached on, and ran across this quote by Calvin. It is really excellent, and so I thought I’d put it up here. The natural arts and all the sciences by which wisdom is…