No reflections this week, rather there’s a meditation in the bulletin.

Reflections

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
~Martin Luther, 1483-1546, in “The Freedom of the Christian”

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~Denis Diderot, 1713-1784, French Philosopher

…unless this freedom [of the Christian gospel] be comprehended, neither Christ nor gospel truth, nor inner peace of soul, can be rightly known.
~John Calvin, 1509-1564, French-born, Swiss reformer

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~Euripides, 480-406, Greek Tragedian (Playwright)

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.
~Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994), Italian-born architect and MIT professor

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
~D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), Welsh medical doctor and preacher