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William Tyndale

Social Activism

1494–1536

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..."

Christian David Ginsburg

1831–1914

"The Kabbalah was first taught by God himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in Paradise."

🇦🇹Martin Buber

Philosophy

Existentialism

1878–1965

"The Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology"

"If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism."

Desiderius Erasmus

Philosophy

Renaissance philosophy

1466–1536

"A speech comes alive only if it rises from the heart, not if it floats on the lips."

James Hudson Taylor

Medicine

1832–1905

"You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself."

🇩🇪Franz Rosenzweig

Philosophy

1886–1929

"Philosophy takes it upon itself to throw off the fear of things earthly, to rob death of its poisonous sting."

🇬🇧Lancelot Andrewes

Religion

1555–1626

"A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in."

🇺🇸Jim Elliot

Music

1926–1956

"He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose."