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The great test of life is obedience to God.
- Ezra Taft Benson
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
- Paul Ricoeur
Your ability to choose became your superpower.
- Robin Jones Gunn
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
- Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government.
- Ronald Reagan
No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in sizeā€”and that, in a way, became my theme.
- Ronald Reagan
These words were spoken by Him to whom, according to His own statement, is given all power in heaven and on earth. You who hear me must consider within yourselves whether you will bow before his authority or not, accept and believe the words or not. But if you do not wish to do so, then for heaven's sake do not go and accept the words because they are clever or profound or wonderfully beautiful, for that is a mockery of God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To ask whether Christ is profound is blasphemy, and is an attempt (whether conscious or not) to destroy Him surreptitiously; for the question conceals a doubt concerning His authority, and this attempt to weigh Him up is impertinent in its directness, behaving as though He were being examined, instead of which it is to Him that all power is given in heaven and upon earth.
- Soren Kierkegaard
But now how can an Apostle prove that he has authority? If he could prove it physically , then he would not be an Apostle. He has no other proof than his own statement. That has to be so; for otherwise the believer's relationship to him would be direct instead of being paradoxical.
- Soren Kierkegaard
to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For a Christianity preached by royal functionaries who are paid and made secure by the State and employ the police against other people, such a Christianity has the same relation to the Christianity of the New Testament as swimming with a cork float or with a bladder has to swimming, that is to say, it is play.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
- John Foxe