F0r U1470 00 00 Quotes & Sayings

The Sinai covenant itself, then, is a law-covenant. The land is given to Israel, but for the purpose of fulfilling its covenantal vocation. Remaining in the land is there fore conditional on Israel's personal performance of the stipulations that people swore at Sinai ... The ultimate promise of a worldwide family of Abraham
sinners justified and glorified in a renewed creation
is unconditional in its basis, while the continuing existence of the national theocracy as a type of that everlasting covenant depended on Israel's obedience ... The Decalogue and Joshua 24 fit this suzerainty pattern, but as Mendenhall observe, "it can readily be seen that the covenant with Abraham (and Noah) is of completely different form." P.15 — Michael S. Horton

A comfortable prison was still a prison. — Salman Rushdie

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them. — Philip Sidney

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful. — Tyra Banks

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing — J.M. Coetzee

It's always nice to be thought of. — Martina Mcbride

It is imperative that a woman keep her sense of humor intact and at the ready. She must see, even if only in secret, that she is the funniest, looniest woman in her world, which she should also see as being the most absurd world of all times. — Maya Angelou

Every time I force myself to go outside something wonderful happens (Humans of New York photographed subject) — Brandon Stanton

I mean, how strange is that we bring plant sex organs to people we're attracted to? What's up with that? It's a weird sign of affection. — Richelle Mead

verifying them from Scripture. Any doctrine claiming to — Anonymous

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us. — William S. Burroughs

Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops. — Tom Cox

If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: "I did not deserve God's forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also. — Paul Silway

What you do on the inside effects your brain and chemistry and blood and DNA much more than anything you can do on the outside. I know many people who decide they will never be happy again. Never make money again. Never find romance again. — Anonymous

The decay of power is changing the world. — Moises Naim