“This evidence is gloriously confirmed by present experience, which adds to the documentary evidence that wonderful directness and immediacy of conviction which delivers us from fear. Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur; but it can never enable us to be Christians whether the events occurred or not. It is a fair flower, and should be prized as a gift of God. But cut it from its root in the blessed Book, and it soon withers away and dies.”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
All that worship for nothing.
"I believer there ought to be a preparation before the Lord's Supper. I don not believe in Mrs. Toogood's preparation, who spent a week in preparing, and then finding it was not the Ordinance Sunday, she said she had lost all the week."
C.H. Spurgeon, The Remembrance of Christ, New Park Street Sermons, vol. 1, sermon 2
Phatic Hiatus, indeed
"The cardinal difficulty,'said MacPhee, 'in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is 'Put that in the other one there'. And then if you ask them 'in where?' they say 'in there of course'. There is consequently a phatic hiatus."
CS Lewis That Hideous Strength
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