Friday, January 25, 2008

Quote of the day #1:

"I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell."

The statement was made by General William Booth (1829-1912), the man who founded the Salvation Army. He was speaking of the twentieth century, but for many of us who grew up in the last half of the twentieth century, it seems to apply also to the the twenty-first century.

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