Daniel F.

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“The Spirit of God is an artisan, not an industrialist.”
― Brian Zahnd, Water To Wine: Some of My Story

“As the distinguished medievalist Warren Hollister (1930–1997) put it in his presidential address to the Pacific Historical Association, “to my mind, anyone who believes that the era that witnessed the building of Chartres Cathedral and the invention of parliament and the university was ‘dark’ must be mentally retarded—or at best, deeply, deeply, ignorant.”60”
― Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion

“For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion