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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc09bf5 | Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. | Brenda Novak | ||
| 3f4880c | Inu-Yasha: Is it my imagination, or have you been a little prickly lately? Sango: It's your imagination! | humor manga | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| 23ba4fe | Misliking the Harrow as I do, I would find no small joy in thwarting him. Have I not admitted that I, too, am prone to greed? But here I personify the united will of the Insequent. Any deviation from that resolve will breach the sacred prohibition which enables the Insequent to endure and prosper. Answering you, I will bring down my own destruction and accomplish only sorrow. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 1090041 | I can't spend my whole life just sitting on my hands and wondering when I'm going to fade. I can't. That's worse than doing something wrong. Isn't it? | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 5fe466c | for all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 136dd98 | A real man--real in all the ways that we recognize as real--finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre. There he is informed by a disembodied voice that he has been brought to that place as a champion for his world. He must fight to the death in single combat against a.. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| cc8bafb | All paths lead to death," she said when she found her voice. "This the Worm merely hastens." | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 32f75c5 | You did not cause his despair. Had you treated him with distrust, you would have achieved nothing but the confirmation of his distress. Distrust--vindicates itself. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 56718fd | I'm not alive." She heard fury climbing to the top of his voice. "I'm a leper. Outcast unclean. Lepers are ugly and filthy. And abominable." His words filled her with horror and protest. "How can it be?" she moaned. "You are not--abominable. What world is it that dares treat you so?" | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 1e0e657 | for faith and courage are the greatest gift that we can give to our descendants. And the Land holds mysteries of which we know nothing mysteries of hope as well as of peril. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| bb63809 | The idea that his wedding band was some kind of talisman nauseated him like the smell of attar. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| be36899 | In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 4c7f4d8 | But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 601d5d7 | life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 0a0b6f9 | These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing-- Laughing | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 6a13e59 | Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat. | religion | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 3126dcb | New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them. | conventional-wisdom | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 8e6c86d | Martin Luther arrived at his earthshaking conclusions imbued with biblical exposition. As a professor, he taught the book of Psalms verse by verse from 1513 to 1515, Romans from 1515 to 1516, Galatians from 1516 until 1517, the book of Hebrews from 1517 to 1518 and then the Psalms again from 1519 until 1521. | exposition transformation | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 3d40c69 | The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist position, which held that Mary was subject to original sin, in common with every other human being; and the immaculist position, which held that contrary view that Mary was in some way preserved from original sin, and was thus to be considered sinless. The maculist position was.. | christianity immaculate-conception lay-religion mariology mary middle-ages original-sin theology virgin-mary | Alister E. McGrath | |
| bfb5bdb | In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been specifically condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage. In the absence of any definitive magisterial pronouncement concerning which of these options (or even what range of options) could be considered authentically catholic, it was left to each theologian to reach his .. | christianity justification reformation theology | Alister E. McGrath | |
| fd410e8 | Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age, to have been shattered by the most brutal and devastating war yet known." (51) Part (McGrath suggests) of Lewis's well-documented search for truth and meaning, that search that ultimately led him to Christianity, emerges from the desire to make.. | ptsd stress trauma world-war-i | Alister E. McGrath | |
| acf7866 | Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way. | narrative regeneration renewal story-telling | Alister E. McGrath | |
| de8ae9e | The medieval period based its scriptural exegesis upon the Vulgate translation of the Bible. There was no authorized version of this text, despite the clear need for a standardized text that had been carefully checked against its Hebrew and Greek originals. A number of versions of the text were in circulation, their divergences generally being overlooked. It was not until 1592 than an 'official' version of the text was produced by the churc.. | exegesis humanists medieval-church protestants reformation renaissance vulgate | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 58905ad | For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate, which was increasingly recognized as unreliable and inaccurate. In that the catholic church continued to insist that the Vulgate was a doctrinally normative translation, a tension inevitably developed between humanist biblical scholarship and catholic theology...Through immediate access to .. | catholic-church medieval-church reformation scripture theology vulgate | Alister E. McGrath | |
| bef1be2 | For Lewis, people are too easily taken in by the latest cultural and intellectual fashions. Wanting to be "up to date" in their thinking, they uncritically accept the latest ideas they read about in the media. Reading older books, Lewis argues, helps us to realise that "basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods." We need to remember that the ideas we tend to regard as hopelessly old fashioned and out of date were once.. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 7c95f2b | It's the difference between utility and virtue. Many policy makers now think of education in functional terms. It's about learning skills that will help students find employment--such as using a word processor or spreadsheet. Yet what about helping people to figure out the meaning of life? Or become good people? Or make a difference to others? Is education for a stage in life, completed once we find jobs, or should it be a lifelong pursuit? | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| e759b20 | For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multiplicity of ways in which the creation witnesses to its Creator: it is like a visible garment, which the invisible God dons in order to make himself known; it is like a book in which the name on the Creator is written as its author; it is like a theater, in which the glory of God is publicly dis.. | glory-of-god theology | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 43d0c32 | Christianity, rather than being one myth alongside many others, is thus the fulfilment of all previous mythological religions. Christianity tells a true story about humanity, which makes sense of all the stories that humanity tells about itself. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| de969cf | A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped. | intellectualism logic | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 2322ece | In one sense, faith is about embracing this bigger story and allowing our own story to become part of it. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 5d3f198 | Aveva perso il controllo. Non si controlla un innamoramento, mi disse, non e possibile. E la divertiva che fosse potuto accadere in questo modo, con quest'uomo. Un paziente. Un paziente che lavorava nell'orto. Stella, le dissi, non potevi fare una scelta piu scriteriata. La verita, mi rispose, e che non ho scelto affatto. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 693d159 | This is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 3418f82 | Etre eveille, c'est souffrir; voila le sens profond de la vie. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| e41f0d2 | you can't just let people down, dammit. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| c3e8742 | Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance at the door while they worked. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 6997b20 | The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 7027e0e | the world is simple: it's just a matter of cafes where they like you, and cafes where they don't. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| effdc41 | Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them. | clothes women | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 3f90cba | England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 706b559 | For him in India the British were ridiculous, stiff, unconfident, rule-bound. And he'd made me feel that we couldn't allow ourselves the shame of failure in front of these people. You couldn't let the ex-colonialists see you on your knees, for that was where they expected you to be. They were exhausted now; their Empire was gone; their day was done and it was our turn. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 78121c7 | He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative. | narative | Hanif Kureishi | |
| f7d0957 | Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, for crossing the line, and for stealing God's fire, artists were banned, imprisoned, condemned, silenced, killed - they always would be, these sometimes Christs of the page. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 93b9a12 | behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 5ca9e2f | For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup. | Hanif Kureishi |