Famous quotes containing the words mark and/or numbers:
““Who can forgive sins but God alone?””
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:7.
Asked after Jesus had forgiven the paralytic’s sins.
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)