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The day breeze blew her dress dry; the night wind wrinkled it.

Milton's Paradise is quite available these days, if not in fact certainly as ordinary, unexceptionable desire.

The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary.

The biblical scholar Wilhelm de Wette generalized the idea: "The spirit of Protestantism . . . leads necessarily to political freedom.

The gift of discernment simply gives you the ability to distinguish what spirit or spirits are at work in a person or an environment.

Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice.

He is an intellectual who is unbeholden to the shibboleths of the professoriat and who has a deep appreciation for untutored popular piety.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?