“Maintenance is the sensible side of love.” –U. A. Fanthorpe, from her poem Atlas, which opens with the memorable line, “There is a kind of love called maintenance, Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it”.
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John MacArthur on Bible reading: Question: John, what do you do when you get up in the morning and you go through your day and you just don’t feel like reading? John: Well, usually you don’t read it.
“But we are rarely served by haste. We are never served by emphasizing haste at the expense of godly character.” Read the whole article here.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline […]
“Damn all false antithesis to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings whose oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ.” see the whole quote in context at The Gospel Coalition
“We forget men must be paid to kill. Even an act as simple as leveling a village is costly; rapine is not cheap; and children, I am afraid, will not burn themselves.” –M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
“The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.”
“The devil’s instruments must share in the devil’s punishments.”
“I’m not an emotional person; I’m a Minnesotan.” (out of context quote from a sermon illustration)
“The true price of something is to be considered by dividing its cost over the hours you’ll use it.” seen at WireCutter