Glen's Quotes Db (3181 total)

When a comparison is made of the variant readings of the
New Testament with those of other books which have survived
from antiquity, the results are little short of astounding.
For instance, although there are some 200,000 "errors" among
the New Testament manuscripts, these appear in only about
10,000 places, and only about one-sixtieth rise above the level
of trivialities. Westcott and Hort, Ezra Abbot, Philip Schaff,
and A. T. Robertson have carefully evaluated the evidence and
have concluded that the New Testament text is over 99 percent
pure. In the light of the fact that there are over 5,000 Greek
manuscripts, some 9,000 versions and translations, the evidence
for the integrity of the New Testament is beyond question.

A seaman meets a pirate, and they take turns recounting their adventures at sea. Noting the pirate's peg-leg, hook, and eye patch the seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?"

The pirate replies, "We was caught in a monster storm and a giant wave swept me overboard. Just as they were pullin' me out, a school of sharks appeared and one of 'em bit me leg off."

"Blimey!" said the seaman. "What about the hook?"

"We were boardin' a trader ship, pistols blastin' and swords swingin' this way and that. In the fracas me hand got chopped off."

"My word!" remarked the seaman. "And how came ye by the eye patch?"

"A seagull droppin' fell into me eye," answered the pirate.

"You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" the sailor asked with amazement.

"Well," said the pirate, "it was me first day with the hook . . .

All men are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

We resent offenses against our taste at least as much as offenses against our conscience or reason... The `sentimentality and cheapness' of many Christian hymns had been a strong point in my own resistance to conversion.