...ripple across the waters of time, conquering larger and larger segments of reality as it goes.

If you watch your nickels and dimes the dollars will take care of themselves.

is like unto something Robert L. Ottley delivered at Oxford University more than one hundred years ago:

"The Old Testament may be studied. . .as an instructor in social righteousness. It exhibits the moral government of God as attested in his dealings with nations rather than with individuals; and it was their consciousness of the action and presence of God in history that made the prophets preachers, not merely to their countrymen, but to the world at large. . . .There is indeed significance in the fact that in spite of their ardent zeal for social reform they did not as a rule take part in political life or demand political reforms. They desired. . .not better institutions but better men." (Aspects of the Old Testament. The Bampton Lectures, 1897 [London: Longmans, 1898], 430-31)

(Reference article: John MacArthur:)