Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. II; CLXXVIII
Lacon (1820)
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Music on Christmas Morning
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. II; CLXXVIII
Lacon (1820)
“If you confess your sins, you must confess them to God; we are but his witnesses.”
Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 155.
“This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.”
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.”
PZ Myers (1957) American scientist and associate professor of biology
Context: Look at the bible as a pastiche, a collection of mutually and often internally inconsistent fragments slapped together for crude reasons of politics and art and priestly self-promotion and sometimes beauty and a lot of chest-thumping tribalism, and through that lens, it makes a lot of sense. It does tell us something important…about us, not some fantastic mythological being. It tells us that we are fractious, arrogant, scrappy people who sometimes accomplish great things and more often cause grief and pain to one another. We want to be special in a universe that is uncaring and cold, and in which the nature of our existence is a transient flicker, so we invent these strange stories of grand beginnings, like every orphan dreaming that they are the children of kings who will one day ride up on a white horse and take them away to a beautiful palace and a rich and healthy family that will love them forever. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian
Micah 4:2
Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 781
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 81.
John Hagee (1940) American pastor, theologian and saxophonist
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 84