Quote By Calvin on Unity Among Churches

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No not that Calvin, the other one….

Calvin writes, “The pure ministry of the word and pure mode of celebrating the sacraments are, as we say, sufficient pledge and guarantee that we may safely embrace as church any society in which both these marks exist. The principle extends to the point that we must not reject it so long as it retains them, even if it otherwise swarms with many faults. What is more, some fault may creep into the administration of either doctrine or sacraments, but this ought not to estrange us from communion with the church. For not all articles of true doctrine are of the same sort (emphasis mine). Some are so necessary to know that they should be certain and unquestioned by all men as the principles of religion. Such are: God is one; Christ is God and the Son of God; our salvation rests in God’s mercy; and the like. Among the churches there are other articles of doctrine disputed which still do not break the unity of faith” (Institutes, 4:1:12; 2:1025).

C. S. Lewis Quote

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“You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.”

–Myth Became Fact, World Dominion

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis is the author of many famous books, including The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.


“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.

Mark Twain Quotes

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I recently came across a little book full of little quips from Mark Twain. He was a wisecracker for sure, and definitely makes me chuckle. His observations about human nature often have an uncanny accuracy for someone who was not exactly friendly to Christianity. Enjoy!


“There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

“Get your facts first, then distort them as much as you please.”

“The man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you . This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.”

“Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt. And children.”

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean”

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”