Biblia

DECEPTION

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

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

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

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

DEATH-BED

It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, … Continue reading “DEATH-BED”