Do not deceive one another. The Bible, Leviticus 19:11 Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. Demosthenes No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Fulke Greville We like to be deceived. Blaise Pascal
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DECIDING FOR GOD
Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or wilt thou have thy sins and go to hell? The voice John Bunyan heard It might be the Devil or it might be the Lord, but you’ve got to serve somebody. Bob Dylan Our capacity to choose changes constantly with our practice of life. The … Continue reading “DECIDING
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DECLINE
See: Backsliding
DEBATE
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Cicero An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. William Hazlitt
DEBT
The borrower is servant to the lender. The Bible, Proverbs 22:7 He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. Benjamin Franklin Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare, Hamlet
DEBT TO GOD
While a man lives, there is not a single hour, day or night, when he is not a debtor. Origen
DECAY
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religio [religion] of amulets and holy places and priest craft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. C.S. Lewis There is an element of decay in everything that characterizes modern man. Nietzsche
DEATH OF A BABY
I everywhere teach that no one can be justly condemned and perish except on account of actual sin; and to say that the countless mortals taken from life while yet infants are precipitated from their mother’s arms into eternal death is a blasphemy to be universally detested. John Calvin
DEATH OF A CHILD
I’m so glad Elisabeth is with the Lord, and not in that box. Mrs R.A. Torrey, at the funeral of her twelve-year-old daughter. Dead! dead! the Child I lov’d so well! Transported to the world above! I need no more my heart conceal. I never dar’d indulge my love; But may I not indulge my … Continue reading “DEATH
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DEATH OF CHRIST
See: Cross