Inspirational Quotes by Ray Comfort

“I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.”

“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.”

“And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.”

“Quant à moi, je considère les archives géologiques, selon la métaphore de Lyell, comme une histoire du globe incomplètement conservée, écrite dans un dialecte toujours changeant, et dont nous ne possédons que le dernier volume traitant de deux ou trois pays seulement. Quelques fragments de chapitres de ce volume, et quelques lignes éparses de chaque page sont seuls parvenus jusqu'à nous. Chaque mot de ce langage changeant lentement, plus ou moins différent dans les chapitre successifs, peut représenter les formes qui ont vécu, qui sont ensevelies dans les formations successives, et qui nous paraissent à tort avoir été brusquement introduite.”

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“Billy Graham Dead? We Know Better.”

“The true function of the Law is to accuse and to kill; but the function of the gospel is to make alive. 1483-1546 GFRMAN PRIFST WHO FOUNDED THE LUTHERAN CHURCH”

“Throughout the Sermon on the Mount Jesus expounded the perfect Law of a perfect Creator. God’s work is perfect (Deuteronomy 32:4), His way is perfect (Psalm 18:30), and His Law is perfect (Psalm 19:7; James 1:25). Jesus then climaxes His exposition with the demand of the Law—perfection in thought, word, and deed. In magnifying the Law and making it honorable, He put righteousness beyond the reach of sinful humanity. He destroyed the vain hope that we can get right with a perfect Creator by our own Imperfect efforts, i.e., by the works of the Law. (See Mark 7:5-13 footnote.) Instead, we must seek righteousness by another means—through faith alone in the Savior (Romans 3:21, 22). In doing so, Jesus was showing us the right use of the Law—as a “schoolmaster to bring us to Christ” (Galatians 3:24).”

“have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. 1743-1826 THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AUTHOR OF THE U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE”

“What a tragedy that he thought the precious blood of the Savior was shed simply to make him happy in this life, rather than to make him prepared for the next one.”

“When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.”

“God's people do not need to fear. God delivers. And if He does not deliver, He sustains. And if He does not sustain, He receives us into His everlasting arms - for He is sovereign! God be praised.”

“If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed duck (Micropterus of Eyton); as fins in the water and front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx. Yet the structure of each of these birds is good for it, under the conditions of life to which it is exposed, for each has to live by a struggle; but it is not necessarily the best possible under all possible conditions. It must not be inferred from these remarks that any of the grades of wing-structure here alluded to, which perhaps may all have resulted from disuse, indicate the natural steps by which birds have acquired their perfect power of flight; but they serve, at least, to show what diversified means of transition are possible.”

“like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food, etc., as the only possible cause of variation. In one very”

“...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties.”

“Natural selection rendered evolution scientifically intelligible: it was this more than anything else which convinced professional biologists like Sir Joseph Hooker, T. H. Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.”

“I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.”

“Es conveniente el intentar dar de este modo, con la imaginación, a una especie cualquiera, una ventaja sobre otra. Es probable que ni en un solo caso sabríamos cómo hacerlo. Esto debiera convencernos de nuestra ig- norancia acerca de las relaciones mutuas de todos los seres orgánicos, convicción tan necesaria como difícil de adquirir. Todo lo que podemos hacer es tener siempre presente que todo ser orgánico está esforzándose por aumentar en razón geométrica, que todo ser orgánico, en algún perí- odo de su vida, durante alguna estación del año, durante todas las gene- raciones o con intervalos, tiene que luchar por la vida y sufrir gran des- trucción. Cuando reflexionamos sobre esta lucha nos podemos consolar con la completa seguridad de que la guerra en la naturaleza no es ince- sante, que no se siente ningún miedo, que la muerte es generalmente rá- pida y que el vigoroso, el sano, el feliz, sobrevive y se multiplica. (El origen de las especies p.66 cap 3 la lucha por la existencia)”

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.”

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection,”