Larine Stinson Quotes & Sayings

There is no New Testament basis for a linking of church and state until Christ, the King returns. The whole "Constantine mentality" from the fourth century up to our day was a mistake. Constantine, as the Roman Emperor, in 313 ended the persecution of Christians. Unfortunately, the support he gave to the church led by 381 to the enforcing of Christianity, by Theodosius I, as the official state religion. Making Christianity the official state religion opened the way for confusion up till our own day. There have been times of very good government when this interrelationship of church and state has been present. But through the centuries it has caused great confusion between loyalty to the state and loyalty to Christ, between patriotism and being a Christian.
We must not confuse the Kingdom of God with our country. To say it another way: "We should not wrap our Christianity in our national flag. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny ... — George Saunders

Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes." I — Tish Harrison Warren

Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot. — Dean Koontz

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted. — Honore De Balzac

We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called Life! — Louise Hay

I didn't think I would make this much money. — Mike Judge

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you. — Edward Hirsch

Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers]. — Louis Thomas McFadden