“Ingratitude is similar to pride. If we are ungrateful for what we have, then we presume to have gotten it merely by our own efforts. That is an affront to the gracious and good character of the God who supplies good things to and for us all.” K. Scott Oliphint, The Battle Belongs to the… [Read more…]
July 8, 2011
“It also seems to me that it is unfair to make Paul’s formulation of the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet’ fit into a rational scheme of aeons dictated by man’s principles of logic. Nowhere in Paul’s writings do we find a systematic eschatological timetable presented to the church. We merely see a ‘mingling of two… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
“I am done with Great things and Big things, with Great institutions and Big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular forces, that work from individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, but which, give them time, will rend the… [Read more…]
November 16, 2010
“O, yes, yes, in there. . . . I’d have said anything in there. You’re so eloquent, dear Badger, and so moving, and so convincing, and put all your points so frightfully well — you can do what you like with me in there, and you know it. But I’ve been searching my mind since,… [Read more…]
November 16, 2010
“Next moment, hardly knowing how it came about, he found had hold of the handle and was turning it. As the familiar sound broke forth, the old passion seized on Toad and completely mastered him, body and soul. AS if in a dream he found himself, somehow, seated in the driver’s seat; as if in… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“Some on has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience. It would have made me in love with love for the rest of my life.” Comment of Lord Henry Wotton; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 105.
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