Monday, November 30, 2009

Notwithstanding my youth [note: about 20 years old] the ecclesiastical functions aroused in me more fear than joy, for I knew, and I remain convinced, that I must give account for the sheep that should perish through my negligence.
-- Ulrich Zwingli, quoted in John T. McNeil, The History and Character of Calvinism

Friday, November 27, 2009

"As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything." (Ecclesiastes 11:5, ESV)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Why was man created on Friday: So that, if he become overbearing, one can say to him, The gnat was created before you.
-- Tractate Sanhedrin 38a quoted in Montefiore and Lowe, A Rabbinic Anthology