After describing false gods as speechless, blind, deaf, immobile, and powerless, Psalm 115 says that “those who make them will become like them, / everyone who trusts in them” (115:8).

we have the politicians we deserve.

Martin Bucher writing to John Calvin in October 1542 about Peter Martyr Vermigli

The greatest thing God could do for us is to give us a Savior.

“Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven” (Psalm 85:11). Truth, eternally existing in the bosom of the Father, has sprung from the earth so that He might exist also in the bosom of a mother. Truth, holding the world in place, has sprung from the earth so that He might be carried in the hands of a woman. Truth, incorruptibly nourishing the happiness of the angels, has sprung from the earth in order to be fed by human milk. Truth, whom the heavens cannot contain, has sprung from the earth so that He might be placed in a manger. (Augustine)

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