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“. . . here we have a movie where the hero is fighting every ideology he hates, gets his ass kicked, and is then informed, ‘Oh, and by the way: I’m your dad. But you knew all along.’”
Describing a Gen-X watching The Empire Strikes Back; Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (New York: Scribner, 2004), 154.
“. . . as Plato says, the written word is only a poor faint shadow of real conversation, in which, among people who know each other well, the merest suggestion explains a train of thought which the most elaborate written explanation leaves obscure, lifeless and formal.”
Walter Hooper, ed., The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Family Letters 1905-1931 (San Francisco: Harper, 2004), 130; writing to his father, dated 18 June, 1915, and citing Phaedrus, 278a.
“God’s kingdom is happening right under your noses . . .”
N. T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (Harper One: New York, 2006), 103.
“Why is the law of God irrevocable? The Bible makes that plain. Because it is rooted in the nature of God. God is righteous and that is the reason why His law is righteous. Can He then revoke His law or allow it to be disregarded? Well, there is of course no external compulsion upon Him to prevent Him from doing these things. There is none who can say to Him, ‘What doest thou?’ In that sense He can do all things. But the point is, He cannot revoke His law and still remain God. He cannot, without Himself becoming unrighteous, make His law either forbid righteousness or condone unrighteousness. When the law of God says, ‘The soul that sinneth it shall die,’ that awful penalty of death is, indeed, imposed by God’s will; but God’s will is determined by God’s nature, and God’s nature being unchangeably holy the penalty must run its course. God would be untrue to Himself, in other words, if sin were not punished; and that God should be untrue to Himself is the most impossible thing that can possibly be conceived.”
J. Gresham Machen, “The Doctrine of the Atonement,” (December 1936); Sunday radio address given three weeks prior to his death.
“. . . faith is a matter first and foremost of looking outside and away from oneself to Christ and his cross as the sole ground of present forgiveness and future hope.”
J. I. Packer, “What did the cross achieve: The logic of penal substitution,” Lecture delivered at Tyndale House, Cambridge, 17 July, 1973.
“. . . whereas human judicial systems are not always rooted in moral reality, the Bible treats the worlds of moral reality and divine judgment as coinciding.”
J. I. Packer, “What did the cross achieve: The logic of penal substitution,” Lecture delivered at Tyndale House, Cambridge, 17 July, 1973.
“We know that the same power God displayed in creating the universe is at His disposal to assure our salvation. He showed that power in the Exodus from Egypt. He displayed His power over death in the resurrection of Christ. We know that no part of creation can frustrate His plans for the future. There are no maverick molecules loose in the universe that could possibly disrupt His plans. “
R. C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1992), 40.
“Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Translated by Alban J. Krailsheimer (London: Penguin, 1995), 132 (Brunschvicg numbering).
“… the proportions of Earth on which we are prepared or able to live are modest indeed: just 12 percent of the total land area, and only 4 percent of the whole surface if you include the seas.”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (New York: Broadway, 2003), 246.
“A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr. “
Thomas’ final sermon before being murdered; T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, (New York: Harcourt, 1963), 49; originally performed (in abbreviated form) at the Canterbury Festival, June 1935.
