Category: quotable

Quotable: Alister McGrath

“Cultural assimilation is all too often the prelude to ecclesial extinction.” — from Heresy!

Quotable: C.S. Lewis on the Church of England

“Such are the reactions of one bleating layman to Modern Theology. It is right that you should hear them. You will not perhaps hear them very often again. Your parishioners will not often speak to you quite frankly. Once the layman was anxious to hide the fact that he believed so much less than the …

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“Sorry to burst your pig bladder!”

The best possible closer to an already interesting article at NPR on the surprising success of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography, published last year.

Quotable: Edward “Mick” Mannock

“Flamerinoes – four! Sizzle sizzle wonk!”

Quotable: Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 13:22

“Shame on those who, with this evidence before them, brand this good man with the epithet of workmonger! a man who, in inward holiness, outward usefulness, and genuine love to God and man, was worth ten score of such self-called believers.”

Quotable: Peter Drucker

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” ~ via http://techpinions.com/microsoft-is-the-very-antithesis-of-strategy/32303

Quotable: James Baldwin

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” from “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy” in Esquire (May 1961); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) Via wikiquote

Quotable: Steve Pettit

“People are down on what they’re not up on.”

Quotable: Denny Burk on Noah

“As far as midrash is concerned, Noah is the midrashiest midrash that ever was midrashed.” –Denny Burk from his review of Russell Crowe’s Noah, via Challies.com

Quotable: Sam Horn

“God’s protection lies in God’s instruction.”