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Did Voltaire actually say "If you want to kill Christianity, you must abolish Sunday"?
Recently I was listening to a defense of the observation of the Sabbath, and within it the speaker quoted Voltaire as saying something like:
If you want to kill Christianity, you must abolish ...
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Origin of quote: "If you wish to speak or hear about God, renounce your own body..."
I've been reading Orthodox Dogmatic Theology by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky and encountered this quote attributed to St. Basil the Great:
If you wish to speak or hear about God, renounce your ...
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Who first said, "We are all born Pelagians?"
In What Is Reformed Theology? R. C. Sproul attributes the following quote to Roger Nicole, a 20th century Reformed theologian:
We are all born Pelagians. (source)
By this, Sproul means to say that ...
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Origin of the saying: Ex Deo Nascimur, In Christo Morimur
Ex Deo Nascimur,
In Christo Morimur,
Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus
From God we are born,
In Christ we die,
(and) in (/per) the Holy Spirit we are reborn (revived)
This is an old ...
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