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8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God;+ 9it is not from works, so no one may boast.
Harper Bibles • The New American Bible: The Leading Catholic Resource for Understanding Holy Scripture
And as long as a man is thinking of God as an examiner who has set him a sort of paper to do, or as the opposite party in a sort of bargain—as long as he is thinking of claims and counter-claims between himself and God—he is not yet in the right relation to Him. He is misunderstanding what he is and what God is. And he cannot get into the right
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The tribe, like the phratry, held assemblies and passed decrees, to which all the members were obliged to submit. It had a chief, tribunus, .243 From what remains to us of the tribe we see that, originally, it was constituted to be an independent society, and as if there had been no other social power above it.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Jude 1
Judgement will come on the great Day
those will slander what they don't understand, and the things that they do understand by instinct, will be what destroys them
The ungodly are grumbles, fault finders, follow their instinctive evil desires, they boast about themselves and flatter others for self-gain. These people divide us.
Followers of
... See more“Listen to me, you perplexed creature,” said the Hoopoe. “Such is the condition of all in creation. If one would not trip, one would not lower his head in penitence. If all were godly, would there be any room for the prophets?”
Farid Ud-din Attar • The Conference of the Birds
