And I will give them an heart to know me.

Jeremiah 24.7

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

Jeremiah 13.15

The word 'predestinated' is never used in connection with those who suffer eternal punishment, so God cannot be accused by the stupid of predestining anyone to perdition.

John S. Waldrip

Michael Sattler was burned at the stake for writing and publishing the Schleitheim Confession with its declaration of believers baptism his wife was drowned a few days later.

Ched Spellman

Conrad Grebel died of the plague on the run from the city government for his stand on believers baptism and speaking against infant baptism.

Ched Spellman

George Blaurock was burned at the stake by the Austrian government for preaching about believer's baptism and speaking against infant baptism.

Thieleman J. van Braught

Felix Manz was drowned through a decree of the City Council in Zurich in the river Limmat for preaching the baptism of believers and baptizing people in order to stop the practice.

Henry Bullinger

Humans are cerebral misers; namely they are too intellectually lazy to collect the relevant information on a given issue and instead prefer to form opinions while expending as little mental effort as possible.

Gad Saad, Ph.D., "The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense," page 141.

When we speak of someone as "well-read," we should have this ideal in mind. Too often, we use that phrase to mean the quantity rather than the quality of reading. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are."

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading," Simon & Schuster, page 164.

Those who say they are part of the universal, invisible church at salvation are sleeping at the front door of the real church, not realizing how they are depriving themselves of spiritual growth. Church membership should be the next logical step after they come to Christ for salvation.

Dr. Dan R. Nelson, "Baptist Revival 2.0: Baptist Faith and Practice Analyzed and Explained Scripturally and Historically."

It is the duty of every theologian to subordinate his theories to the Bible, and teach not what seems to him to be true or reasonable, but simply what the Bible teaches.

Charles Hodge (1797-1878)

Collective Munchausen: Sufferers of Collective Munchausen seek attention, sympathy, and empathy by advertising their suppose and victimhood heard status (or piggybacking on the victimhood of others, Collective Munchausen by Proxy).

Gad Saad, Ph.D.

Most people think that winning the argument is what matters, not learning the truth.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading," Simon & Schuster, page 145.

A proper understanding of the church is crucial today. The church is not universal, it is not all believers, it is not a denomination, and it is not authorized and maintained by the civil government.

Dr. Dan R. Nelson

The Scriptures are written the every-day language of men, and they often describe an act or a thing as it appears to be, rather than as it really is. The Bible speaks of "the four corners of the earth," Is. 11:12, and one of "the foundations of the earth," Ps. 104:5; yet no one understands this to mean that the earth is square, or that it actually rests upon a foundation. We speak of the sun rising and setting, yet we know that it is not the motion of the sun but that of the earth as it turns over on its axis which causes this phenomenon. Likewise, when the Scriptures speak of God repenting, for instance, no one with proper ideas of God understands it to mean that He sees He has pursued a wrong course and changes His mind. It simply means that His action as seen from the human view-point appears to be like that of a man who repents.

Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as anal

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

Paul Charles William Davies, physicist, professor at Arizona State University, affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies in Chapman University in California.

Einstein's reply to a schoolgirl's letter in 1936 which asked him, "Do scientists pray?" In the same letter Einstein also said, "Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

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Even if we did not have the New Testament or Christian writings, we would be able to conclude from such non-Christian writings as Josephus, the Talmud, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger that: (1) Jesus was a Jewish teacher; (2) many people believed that he performed healings and exorcisms; (3) he was rejected by the Jewish leaders; (4) he was crucified under Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius; (5) despite this shameful death, his followers, who believed that he was still alive, spread beyond Palestine so that there were multitudes of them in Rome by A.D. 64; (6) all kinds of people from the cities and countryside - men and women, slave and free - worshiped him as God by the beginning of the second century.

Edwin M. Yamauchi, Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University

My son, what have I to do here any longer? The only thing for which I wished to live was your conversion, and that the Lord has now granted me in an abundant manner.

The godly mother of Aurelius Augustine following his conversion to Christ.

In a Church, organized like the primitive churches, none but baptized persons can be admitted to membership.

J. L. Dagg (1794-1884)

For those of us who are no longer in school, ... it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading," Simon & Schuster, page 114.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

When a man thinks that others are to be blamed, and not himself, for the errors which he has committed from time to time, and the many and great evils which befell him in consequence, and is always fancying himself to be exempt an innocent, he is under the idea that he is honouring his soul; whereas the very reverse is the fact, for he is really injuring her.

Plato (428-347 BC), "Laws, Book V"

The advantageous effect of religious belief and spirituality is one of the best kept secrets in psychiatry and medicine generally.

Professor Andrew Sims, past president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists writes in "Is Faith Delusion?" (Continuum Books, 2009), P xi.