Wisdom of the Ages – Anselm

Wisdom of the Ages

NPG D23949; St Anselm after Unknown artist

“Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved”
Anselm

Wisdom of the Ages – Richard Baxter

Wisdom of the Ages

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“Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.” 
― Richard Baxter

Wisdom of the Ages – Helen Keller

Wisdom of the Ages

Helen Keller

“Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it”
Helen Keller

“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world”
1 John 5:4

 

Wisdom of the Ages – Augustine

Wisdom of the Ages

Augustine

“A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps”
Augustine

Wisdom of the Ages – William Secker

Wisdom of the Ages

William Secker

“Wherefore doth the Lord make your cup run over, but that other men’s lips might taste the liquor? The showers that fall upon the highest mountains should glide into the lowest valleys. “Give, and it shall be given you”, is a maxim little believed.”
– William Secker