“. . . Coketown cast ashes not only on its own head but on the neighbourhood’s too — after the manner of those pious persons who do penance for their own sins by putting other people into sackcloth . . .” Charles Dickens, Hard Times (New York: B & N, 2004), 254-55.
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…]
October 28, 2010
“Ratty, my generous friend! I am very sorry indeed for my foolish and ungrateful conduct. My heart quite fails me when I think how I might have lost that beautiful luncheon-basket. Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it. Will you overlook it this once and forgive me, and let things go… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down, had begun to dominate him. If the tapestry did but tremble in the wind,… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
“He discovered that man in his fundamental need of a changed relation to God had not changed at all: ‘All the changes about which men boast so much are external,’ he observed. ‘They are not changes in man himself, but merely in his mode of activity, in his environment.’” Lloyd-Jones commenting on what he saw… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
“As when a burning taper is brought into a room the light shows itself first, but the taper was before the light, so we see the fruits of repentance first, but the beginnings of faith were there before. That which inclines me to think that faith is seminally in the heart before repentance is because… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
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