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Penn, William
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Penn, William
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William Penn Quotes
How can we know anything about anythingTo try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible? NO! That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about. Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us? How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences? We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers. Why is that? How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read. Why is that? Same scientific facts. Different answers. Same Bible. Different answers. Why is that? The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible? How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible? How do we analyze what we have seen and read? How do we interpret what we have seen and read? We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly. An example might help. Question: Why do believe in evolution? Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact. Question: Why do you believe your science teacher? Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read. Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice. If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts. When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from? There are three possibilities.
Question: Why do believe in creation? Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him. See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved. In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same. Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us. The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan? The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know. Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me" The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God. How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32) "If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it" Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay. [God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31). "There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48) That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own. "When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19) Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true. In listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations. They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, “I guess I’m making the whole thing up.” It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn’t want God to rule over him. Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ~ William Penn Quote Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. (we don't really agree with this quote.) ~ William Penn Quote Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ~ William Penn Quote Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~ William Penn Quote It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. ~ William Penn Quote Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ~ William Penn Quote A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~ William Penn Quote In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ~ William Penn Quote Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. ~ William Penn Quote Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ~ William Penn Quote Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. ~ William Penn Quote If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. ~ William Penn Quote Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. ~ William Penn Quote He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. ~ William Penn Quote He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. ~ William Penn Quote He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. ~ William Penn Quote Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ~ William Penn Quote Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ~ William Penn Quote A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~ William Penn Quote Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ~ William Penn Quote Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. ~ William Penn Quote A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. ~ William Penn Quote To be like Christ is to be a Christian. ~ William Penn Quote For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~ William Penn Quote Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. ~ William Penn Quote He that lives to forever, never fears dying. ~ William Penn Quote I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~ William Penn Quote It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. ~ William Penn Quote Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ~ William Penn Quote Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ~ William Penn Quote Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. ~ William Penn Quote Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ~ William Penn Quote O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ~ William Penn Quote Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. ~ William Penn Quote Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ~ William Penn Quote Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains ~ William Penn Quote Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ~ William Penn Quote Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~ William Penn Quote Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. ~ William Penn Quote Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ~ William Penn Quote The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~ William Penn Quote True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. ~ William Penn Quote The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ. ~ William Penn Quote If we better studied and understood God’s creation, this would do a great deal to caution and direct us in our use of it. For how could we find the impudence to abuse the world if we were seeing the great Creator stare us in the face through each and every part of it? ~ William Penn Quote We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness. ~ William Penn Quote Author/Compiler Last updated: Feb, 2011 |
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