The Academy, the destroyer within

 The vice of professors exceeds the destructiveness of the most hostile assaults, as intestine treachery is more ruinous than foreign violence.

-- The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

Paul of Tarsus, a man so possessed with his own fancies that he took them for oracles

 

Men are so possessed with their own fancies, that they take them for oracles; and are arrived to some extraordinary revelations of truth, when indeed they but do dream dreams, and amuse themselves with the fantastick ideas of a busy imagination.

-- Authorship disputed, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety (1667)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

-- Galatians 1:11f.