Quotemeal: Oct. 18th, 2011

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

"The statistically proven facts that married people live longer, lead healthier and happier lives, have better sex more often, and are better off financially seem to be lost on Americans. All lifestyles are equally good, the marriage critics say; there is no one way of living that is better than another. But the culture is wrong!"
— Dr. Fred Lowery

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"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
— Johannes Eckhart —
"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."
— John Donne —
"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles."
— B. B. Warfield —
"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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Illustration of Dr. Fred Lowery — "The statistically proven facts that married people live longer, lead healthier and happier lives, have better sex more often, and are better off financially seem to be lost on Americans. All lifestyles are equally good, the marriage critics say; there is no one way of living that is better than another. But the culture is wrong!"

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