“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant ten yards away in broad daylight.” –from Lewis’s Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
A hilarious excerpt from M.D. McMullin’s visit to Walmart: Recently, I had the privilege of overhearing a conversation in the shoe aisles. I was looking at flip flops and couldn’t help but catch the conversation in the next aisle over. Woman A: We done talked about this before we got here and I said “NO.” […]
“America deserves the Osteens.” From his article The Osteen Predicament
“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.”
“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
I didn’t even make it through the first two chapters. The characters and their relationships to the narrator are hard to keep track of, and the book might just have the most unlikeable protagonist since Drumline. I paid a quarter for the book, and sadly, I overpaid.
“I loved to go to the tortilla factory.”
Years ago I when I was at my first full time graphic design I was at a company called Ace that made and sold radio control cars, boats, planes, and other accessories. Our meager design and marketing team of four was swamped making catalogs, logos, stickers, ads, and packaging, so we hired a new marketing […]
“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
I have written before about how I am generally opposed to the idea of buying locally for the sake of keeping money in a particular town, state, or country. I think it goes against the idea of a free market, where one purchases goods or services based on the best price, selection, customer service, etc., […]