New Testament: Romans 4
Proverbs: 1
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THE SIXTY—SEVEN ARTICLES OF ZWINGLI
ABOUT THE CESSATION OF MISUSAGES.
LXIV. All those who recognize their errors shall not be allowed to suffer, but to die in peace, and thereafter arrange in a Christian manner their bequests to the Church.LXV. Those who do not wish to confess, God will probably take care of. Hence no force shall be used against their body, unless it be that they behave so criminally that one cannot do without that.
LXVI. All the clerical superiors shall at once settle down, and with unanimity set up the cross of Christ, not the money—chests, or they will perish, for I tell you the ax is raised against the tree.
LXVII. If any one wishes conversation with me concerning interest, tithes, unbaptized children or confirmation, I am willing to answer.
Let no one undertake here to argue with sophistry or human foolishness, but come to the Scriptures to accept them as the judge (for the Scriptures breathe the Spirit of God), so that the truth either may be found, or if found, as I hope, retained. Amen.
Thus may God rule.
Quotes:
How many sacrifice honor, a necessity,
to glory, a luxury
Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, Chp 4.xxxvii
==== Ambition changes people.
Hecotr Tobar, Deep, Down, Dark, page 410
as a quotation of Luis Urzua
====No life is a waste. The only time we waste
is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Mitch Albom, Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg 50
====spirit hath much to do with endurance. Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur, Book III, Chapter 3
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I live by the truth that "No" is a complete sentence.
Ann Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, page 174===
If the book we are reading does not wake us,
as with a fist hammering on our skull,
why then do we read it?
A book must be an ice-axe to break
the sea frozen inside us.
Franz Kafka, as quoted by
George Steiner in A Reader===
At the Last Judgement I shall not be asked whether
I satisfactory practiced asceticism,
nor how many vows I made before the divine altar.
I will be asked whether I fed the hungry,
clothed the naked,
visited the sick
and the prisoner in his jail.
That is all that will be asked.
Mother Maria Skobtsov, as quoted by
T Stratton Smith, The Rebel Nun, pg 135
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Diary of an Old Soul-MacDonald
SO shall abundant entrance me be given
Into the truth, my life's inheritance.
Lo! as the sun shoots straight from out his tomb,
God-floated, casting round a lordly glance
Into the corners of his endless room,
So, through the rent which thou, O Christ, hast riven,
I enter liberty's divine expanse.
