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“The significance of lyrics in pop music is not overrated; in fact, it’s probably underrated. And this is what people overlook about modern country music. They fail to see that it’s a word-based idiom, and words are far more effective than pianos or guitars.”
Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (New York: Scribner, 2004), 183.
“The Old Latin Bible . . . was not a book to impress a man whose mind was full of elegant Ciceronian diction and Virgilian turns of phrase, and who enjoyed good plays at the theatre.”
Henry Chadwick, Augustine, Past Masters Series (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986), 11.
“Among all the nations of the Oriental world, only Israel developed an eschatology . . .”
Hans K. LaRondelle, The Israel of God in Prophecy: Principles of Prophetic Interpretation (Berrien Springs: Andrews University Press, 1983), 35; citing H. D. Preuss, Jahweglaube und Zukunftserwartung, BEANT 7 (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1964).
“We should so reason that the splendor of the divine countenance, which even the apostle calls ‘unapproachable’ [1 Tim. 6.16], is for us like an inexplicable labyrinth unless we are conducted into it by the thread of the Word; so that it is better to limp along this path than to dash with all speed outside of it.”
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, I, 7, 3.
“At the end of his fuel, hopelessly lost in bad weather but still searching for the Hawaiian Islands, Ulm had sent out his last and typically laconic message: ‘We are now landing in the sea. Please come and pick us out.’ Tragically – despite a massive air and sea search – they were not found.”
Charles Ulm and his crew of two others were flying from San Francisco to Honolulu in the 1930s; Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond (New York: Ballantine, 1970), 60, n.
“. . . he knows better than anyone else in baseball how to manage the space between a player’s ears.”
This was said of Cubs manager Dusty Baker; Buzz Bissinger, Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), 23.
“I told God that it all seemed too calculated, that he seemed all too real, too involved, too present in our lives, especially my parents’, as if he had cruelly dished out the very end that each most feared.”
When looking at the deteriorating health of his parents; Michael Horton, Too Good to be True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006), 13.
“My puzzle was the whole doctrine of Redemption: in what sense the life and death of Christ ’saved’ or ‘opened salvation to’ the world. I could see how miraculous salvation might be necessary: one could see from ordinary experience how sin (e.g. the case of a drunkard) could get a man to such a point that he was bound to reach Hell (i.e. complete degradation and misery) in this life unless something quite beyond mere natural help or effort stepped in. And I could well imagine a whole world being in the same state and similarly in need of miracle. What I couldn’t see was how the life and death of Someone Else (whoever he was) 2000 years ago could help us here and now – except in so far as his example helped us. And the example business, tho’ true and important, is not Christianity: right in the centre of Christianity, in the Gospels and St Paul, you keep on getting something quite different and very mysterious expressed in those phrases I have so often ridiculed (‘propitiation’ – ’sacrifice’ – ‘the blood of the Lamb’) – expressions which I could only interpret in senses that seemed to me either silly or shocking.”
Walter Hooper, ed., The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Family Letters 1905-1931 (San Francisco: Harper, 2004), 976; written to his friend, Arthur Greeves, dated 18 October, 1931.
“[Many Christians] treat it [the Bible] as a form of verbal wallpaper: pleasant enough in the background, but you stop thinking about it once you’ve lived in the house a few weeks.”
N. T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (Harper One: New York, 2006), 174.
