“For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the giver himself?” (John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4.17.36)
Category: quotable
Nov 02
Quotable: George Washington
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” —Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783).
Nov 01
Quotable: Adam Clarke
“Rash judgments are doubly pernicious; they hurt those who form them, and those of whom they are formed.”
Oct 17
Quotable: George Washington
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” Letter to Major-General Robert Howe
Oct 03
Quotable: Les Ollila
“If your wife comes home and the front end of the car is rearranged you have to decide, ‘Do I want a good car or a good marriage–you cannot have both at that point.”
Oct 02
Quotable: Augustin
“How many sheep there are without, how many wolves within!” (Homilies on John, 45, 12)
Aug 24
Quotable: John Moltz on Acrylic’s sale to Facebook
“Of course, if Google or Facebook or Microsoft or Victor Von Doom showed up at my door with a big sack full of money and another sack full of blow and another sack full of hot cosplayers, rest assured I would jump into the car with them without a single care about whether I had left on the …
Aug 17
Quotable: Kenneth Branagh on the Thor DVD Commentary
“If I’d’ve had this opportunity on previous films they’d all have cost squinty billion dollars.”
Jun 26
Quotable: Ernest Hemingway
“Write drunk, edit sober.” I had to learn this one from my daughter. Not that she drinks–that I know of–but the other night while I was up late working on the script for Vacation Bible School, I was typing so fast because my brain was firing ideas faster than I could record them, and I …
Jan 29
Quotable: Adam Clarke
“Were it necessary a dissertation might be written on the Persian words, and Persian forms of speech, in this and the two following books; but probably after my toil few of my readers would thank me for my pains.” –Adam Clarke from his commentary on Ezra 8:36