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John R. W. Stott

JF Jones — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:59:45 +0000

“We have declared war on [sin]; we are not going to resume negotiations . . . We have crucified the flesh; we are never going to [with]draw the nails.”

John R. W. Stott, The Message of Galatians (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1971), 152; cited in Derek W. H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home (Orlando: Reformation Trust, 2011), 53, n. 34.

Filed under: Sanctification

Derek W. H. Thomas

JF Jones — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:36 +0000

“We are all wired for self-justification, so imperatives can feed into our need to do something in order to make ourselves a little more justified.”

Derek W. H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home (Orlando: Reformation Trust, 2011), 46.

Filed under: Law, Sanctification

Nick Hornby

JF Jones — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:42:00 +0000

“. . . the passions the game induces consume everything, including tact and common sense. If it is possible to attend and enjoy a football match sixteen days after nearly a hundred people died at one . . . then perhaps it is a little easier to understand the culture and circumstances that allowed these deaths to happen. Nothing ever matters, apart from football.”

Regarding the Liverpool-Forest tragedy at Hillsborough in 1989; Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 217.

Filed under: Death, Distraction

Nick Hornby

JF Jones — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:36:24 +0000

“One of the great things about sport is its cruel clarity: there is no such thing, for example, as a bad one-hundred-metre runner, or a hopeless centre-half who got lucky; in sport, you get found out.”

Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 201.

Filed under: Law

Nick Hornby

JF Jones — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:33:36 +0000

“. . . I still go to every home game, and feel the same tensions and elations and glooms that I have always felt, I now understand them to have an entirely separate identity whose success and failure has no relationship with my own. That night, I stopped being an Arsenal lunatic and relearnt how to be a fan, still cranky, and still dangerously obsessive, but only a fan nonetheless.”

Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 174.

Filed under: Faith, Moderation, Perseverance