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  1. A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

    He served his God so faithfully and well,
    That now he sees him face to face, in hell.

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
    Poem (1923), “Epigram 45: On a Puritan,” Sonnets and Verse (1923 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/83345…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hilairebelloc #damnation #devil #endsandmeans #God #hell #Puritan #zealot

  2. Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.

    #puritan #christian #theologymatters #reformed #puritanscholastics

  3. Watson on the 6th Commandment: mercy works adorn the gospel as fruit adorns a tree (Matt. 5:16)—they credit religion and silence its critics. Westminster-level conviction.

    Contrast today: God is fine with our bad PR, gainsayers deserve snark, a few meals last month covers it. Watson’s question lingers: how do you let your light shine?

    #puritanism #puritan #christian #matthew #sermononthemount

  4. Richard Baxter was an English #Puritan leader,says it’s a crime to equate humans and beasts, to buy and set to the same tasks. He was aware of slavery in Barbados.

    Is the crime today, instead, to admonish this practice?

    How can you think of how those who provide you with goods and services may be treated as beasts?
    #christian #reformed #empathy #inspirationoftheday