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Category Archives: Quote of the Week
“Writing is a test of sense.”
I was having lunch with my friend Andy last week, and the conversation turned to blogging. Andy’s blog was one of the first blogs that I read, but his postings are not as frequent these days. And I always intend … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: Never Safe against Temptation
“Americans are never safe against the temptation of claiming God too simply as the sanctifier of whatever we most fervently desire. This is vanity. To be effective in the world, we need a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, … Continue reading
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George Carlin on Language
“We think in language. And so the quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.”
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Quote of the week: Truthful Conversation
In the acknowledgments at the beginning of his book The Gospel According To America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea, David Dark thanks a group of friends “for exemplifying the kind of conversation that makes disagreement a breakthrough rather … Continue reading
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Giving oneself
To trust is simply to give oneself; the giving is for the future, for which there is no evidence. And once given, the self cannot be taken back, whatever the evidence. ~ Wendell Berry, Remembering
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The purpose of reading
“It seemed to me that Christians were reading primarily for the experience of nodding agreement, “Yes, that’s true,” whereas great literature makes us stop and ponder: “I’ve never imagined it that way before”.” Philip Yancey ~ Soul Survivor – How … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: AP
I was reading some posts on Andrew Peterson’s message board about the new Harry Potter book, and this sentence from Andrew jumped out at me: “Good art gives us language to help us think about things that we understand but … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week
“We need to realize that we are called to follow God in the here and now on a pilgrimage of Eschatological Doxology. That is, a pilgrimage of longing, praise, and worship that is never complete.” ~ Lauren Winner
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Quote of the Week
“The trouble with theology is that you have to say everything all the time, otherwise someone thinks you’re saying you don’t believe it.” ~ Steven Sikes, quoted by N.T. Wright during a lecture given at Yale.
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Quote of the Week
“An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.” ~ C.S. Lewis, On Stories
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