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| 147abf9 | When I think of my age I think in years, still, even after all this time and travel. It's bad form, and ship-life should have cured me of it. "Years?" one of my first officers shouted at me. "I don't give two shits about whatever your pisspot home's sidereal shenanigans are, I want to know how old you are." | China Miéville | ||
| 194e75c | Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not? | China Miéville | ||
| 70f55a1 | Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamoured with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across. | China Miéville | ||
| 87f8e6d | Ils se laisserent porter en direction du nord, vers la gare de Perdido. Ils tournaient lentement, revigores par cette presence urbaine massive, profane, en dessous d'eux, par ce lieu fecond, grouillant, tel qu'aucun de leurs semblables n'en avait jamais connu jusque la. Partout, le moindre secteur - ponts obscurs, hotels particuliers vieux de cinq siecles, bazars tortueux, entrepots de beton, tours, peniches d'habitation, taudis repugnants .. | nouvelle-crobuzon world-building | China Miéville | |
| eb8d60a | You see what's going on," Dane said. Miserably he ran his hands over his head. "That is a picket line, and I am in trouble." "A picket? The cats and birds?" Dane nodded. "The familiars are on strike." | China Miéville | ||
| cf46877 | Well, put simply, and as far as I understand it, they're egalitarian because they respect the individual so much, right? And you can't respect other people's individuality if you focus on your own individuality in a kind of abstract, isolated way. The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individu.. | China Miéville | ||
| 5c2a763 | Billy felt like a lid unsecured and banging in the wind. | China Miéville | ||
| 63bf932 | I admit defeat. I've been trying to present these events with a structure. I simply don't know how everything happened. Perhaps because I didn't pay proper attention, perhaps because it wasn't a narrative, but for whatever reasons, it doesn't want to be what I want to make it. | China Miéville | ||
| 23d70a3 | As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich. | China Miéville | ||
| 1c4ec0e | In those late days of summer, as the right ruminated a cleansing, there flourished a millennial indulgence. | China Miéville | ||
| 3acd0ed | There are parts where even individual trees are crosshatched, where Ul Qoman children and Besz children clamber past each other, each obeying their parents' whispered strictures to unsee the other. | China Miéville | ||
| 9759628 | In Paris you had to be ready to fight art and the Hellish--not to mention Nazis--so they labored under weapons for all eventualities. | China Miéville | ||
| e9e6b9f | susurrus | China Miéville | ||
| bffe8ad | An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it. | doomsayer irony prophet | China Miéville | |
| c393967 | The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing. | words writing | China Miéville | |
| ffb4cd5 | Fights are much taxonomised. They have been subject over centuries to a complex, exhaustive categoric imperative. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives. | China Miéville | ||
| d361823 | In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very. | un-lun-dun | China Miéville | |
| 558fc25 | In North Pittman is a particularly striking theology. There, one church memorably teaches that if all the trains were to be still, together, for one moment, if there were no rails percussing the iron road, all human life would wink instantly out. Because such noises are the snoring, the sleep-breathing of a railsea world, & it is the rails that dream us. We do not dream the rails. | dreams iron-road railsea sleep-breathing snoring theology | China Miéville | |
| e676e94 | their officer. The acid and powder in the | China Miéville | ||
| cc359e6 | Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind. | Amit Ray | ||
| c3cb7cd | Amid the horrors of war, the poets seldom saw fit to mention the deadly tedium. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 1c787dc | Chance is nothing. It has no power because it has no being; therefore, it can exercise no influence over anything. Yet, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4ac59af | Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no :o the righteousness of God. We are saying, "God, Your law is not good. My judgment is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4385063 | Our thinking goes like this: If there is a God at all, He is certainly not holy. If He is perchance holy, He is not just. Even if He is both holy and just, we need not fear because His love and mercy override His holy justice. If we can stomach His holy and just character, we can rest in one thing: He cannot possess wrath. If we think soberly for five seconds, we must see our error. If God is holy at all, if God has an ounce of justice in H.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 64c88ff | Defending the faith to the best of our ability is not a luxury or an indulgence in intellectual vanity.It is the task given to each one of us as we bear witness to our faith before the world.I | R.C. Sproul | ||
| be5aa3d | If you don't believe that God ordains everything that comes to pass, you don't believe in God." I" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2358d7d | God's holiness is more than just separateness. His holiness is also transcendent. The word transcendence means literally "to climb across." It is defined as "exceeding usual limits." To transcenc is to rise above something, to go above and beyond a certain limit. When we speak of the transcendence of God, we are talking about that sense in which God is above and beyond us. Transcendence describes His supreme and absolute greatness. The word.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 295837d | The church is called to be semper reformanda, "always reforming." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 75a22d4 | We affirm that the Holy Scriptures are to be received as the authoritative Word of God. We deny that the Scriptures receive their authority from the church, tradition, or any other human source. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f3df811 | In discussions among the participants at the summit and because of requests to the Draft Committee, there was considerable sentiment for striking the words "sixty-six canonical books" from the early drafts. This was due to some variance within Christendom as to the exact number of books that are to be recognized within the canon. For example, the Ethiopic Church has included more books in the canon than sixty-six." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1235fc7 | The idea that God "always wills healing" has been a destructive distortion in the Christian community. The pastoral problems emanating from this are enormous." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b49682a | Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim. In some cases, our prayers must involve travail of the soul and agony of heart such as Jesus Himself experienced in the Garden of Gethsemane. Sometimes the immature Christian suffers bitter disappointment, not because God failed to keep His promises, but because well-meaning Christians made promises "for" God that God Himself never auth.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e6627be | Every Christian is a theologian. We are always engaged in the activity of learning about the things of God. We are not all theologians in the professional or academic sense, but theologians we are, for better or for worse. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a3dfcfc | Infallibility has to do with the question of ability or potential; that which is infallible is said to be unable to make mistakes or to err. By contrast, that which is inerrant is that which, in fact, does not err. Theoretically, something may be fallible and at the same time inerrant. That is, it is possible for someone who errs to not err. However, the reverse is not true. If someone is infallible, that means he cannot err, and if he cann.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5ca968f | A razao exige convincentemente um ser que possui asseidade; sem ele, nada poderia existir neste mundo. Jamais poderia ter havido um tempo em que nada existia, porque, se esse tempo tivesse existido, nada existiria agora. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1283ef3 | We affirm that the Scriptures are the supreme written norm by which God binds the conscience, and that the authority of the church is subordinate to that of Scripture. We deny that church creeds, councils, or declarations have authority greater than or equal to the authority of the Bible. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| cc139e4 | Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods which you have not known" (Deut. 11: 26-28, NIV). The curse is the judgment of God on disobedience, on" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0b8105e | around the world on the daily radio program Renewing Your Mind. During his distinguished | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6462f65 | Every time we celebrate the Lord's Supper in this world, we shouldn't only look back to Christ's past accomplishments, but to the future feast that is yet to be fulfilled. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c5be3cc | The way of suffering was the Father's plan. It was the Father's will. The cross was not Satan's idea. The passion of Christ was not the result of human contingency. It was not the accidental contrivance of Caiaphas, Herod, or Pilate. The cup was prepared, delivered, and administered by almighty God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 57ffbeb | Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 990ed76 | theology touches every dimension of our lives. The | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2c034d1 | The Sacred and the Profane. Eliade insists that we have never been able to create an existence of pure and utter profanity. He says, "To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| aa91c96 | Man alone can think of the future and speculate upon or imagine a better life than he currently enjoys or could ever bring to pass, and this is the source of his misery. | R.C. Sproul |