“When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!” PeopleTryingWellsMightTodayEarthChristianSpiritFallMankindChristian InspirationalThank GodFloodStemDamsLawlessnessRestrainingNiagaraToothpicksNiagara Falls Author:Vance Havner
“I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.” LoveEarthHeavenMakersRejoiceFloodHeaven And EarthI Love Him Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.” Would BeEarthDestructionSeedsWickedFloodIniquitySwept AwayDeluge Book:L.P. Source: L.P.
“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.” NeedsYearsIdeasStoriesEarthReligionOrderThreeHalfAtheismEventsProductsThousandMajorsArgumentMiracleClaimsIncludingOpponentsAbandonCollapseBiblicalFloodThousand YearsFossilsRelianceLiteralAssertionGenesisDistortionInvokeOf ContextCitations Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.” RunningEarthTurnsWaterSweetDrinkWorshipSpringLaborDown AndPlantFruitNobleSweatFloodToilGardenerUpside DownFood And DrinkTrue WorshipDeepness Author:Julian of Norwich
“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.” WorldShouldMayLightEarthGrowsEnjoyDarkDarknessShadowLaysBurdenHeavyGravesMysteriousChainsSunshineNew WorldDeniedFloodWearyMidnightCrushedHereafterBrightnessRuggedShadow Of Death Book:Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house