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| 897b33c | God does not love us because we are serviceable; He loves us simply because He loves us. This is the only kind of love we can ever be secure in, of course, since it is the only kind of love we cannot possibly lose. This is grace. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 85f26ea | So we can see all cultural production (and remember, everything we do at work is some form of cultural production) as a dialogue between our innate, affirming response to God's common grace and the idolatrous, rebellious nature of our hearts. Therefore, human culture is an extremely complex mixture of brilliant truth, marred half-truths, and overt resistance to the truth. "Loss of faith in a given religion does not by any means imply the er.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d623e3a | Vietnamese/American co-production Three Seasons, a collection of four intertwining vignettes. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 722a215 | Change from Change to 1. Individual salvation The gospel changes everything (hearts, community, and world) 2. Being good Being saved 3. Cheap grace Costly grace (awareness of our sin) 4. Heaven is "up there" Christ will come again--to this earth 5. God is value-add to us In God's providence, we could contribute to his work on earth 6. Idols of this world Living for God 7. Disdain of this world Engaged in this world 8. "Bowling alone" Acce.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 7093365 | A focus on being good distracts us from coming to terms with our sin; and it is because of our sin that Christ needed to die. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| c28f533 | Life is filled with hard choices, and it is childish to think you can avoid them. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 95ac6a9 | To insist that death is nothing to be frightened of is simply another illusion muffling the obscenity of death. We live in denial of it, but like all repressed facts, it keeps disturbing us, haunting us, and quietly (or not so quietly) draining our hope. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 2381a2f | Somewhat to my surprise, there were several polite golf claps. Vampires. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 792ca59 | Death was not part of God's original design. We were not created to age, weaken, fade, and die. We were not created for love relationships that end in death. Death is an intrusion, a result of sin and our human race's turning away from God. Our sense even now that we were made to last, that we were made for love without parting, is a memory trace of our divine origins. We are trapped in a world of death, a world for which we were not design.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 3e5eda6 | Si nuestro valor viene de la aprobacion de los companeros, o del dinero en el banco, o de nuestra reputacion por el exito, entonces estas cosas son nuestros tesoros. No obstante, Jesus senalaba con razon cuan radicalmente inseguros estamos si atesoramos tales cosas. Pueden ser llevadas o robadas.203 Y entonces nuestras vidas pueden desmoronarse. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 4088eab | Charles Taylor explains why modern people are far more likely to lose their faith over suffering than those in times past. He says it is because, culturally, our belief and confidence in the powers of our own intellect have changed. Ancient people did not assume that the human mind had enough wisdom to sit in judgment on how an infinite God was disposing of things. It is only in modern times that we get "the certainty that we have all the e.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 654159f | If I was saved by my good works, then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through, I would be like a tax payer with rights, I would have done my duty, and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if I am a sinner saved by sheer grace, then there is nothing he cannot ask of me. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| f453049 | English minister David Clarkson preached one of the most comprehensive and searching sermons on counterfeit gods ever written.113 About idolatry he said, "Though few will own it, nothing is more common." If we think of our soul as a house, he said, "idols are set up in every room, in every faculty." We prefer our own wisdom to God's wisdom, our own desires to God's will, and our own reputation to God's honor. Clarkson looked at human relati.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| ddaf98a | Lord, "Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray--I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 042fdf7 | Marriage is a major vehicle for the gospel's remaking of your heart from the inside out and your life from the ground up. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 2b14231 | Jesus did not merely weep for us; he died for us. Jonah went outside the city, hoping to witness its condemnation, but Jesus Christ went outside the city to die on a cross to accomplish its salvation. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 7379192 | The structure of de Prony's computing office cannot be easily seen in Smith's example. His computing staff had two distinct classes of workers. The larger of these was a staff of nearly ninety computers. These workers were quite different from Smith's pin makers or even from the computers at the British Nautical Almanac and the Connaissance des Temps. Many of de Prony's computers were former servants or wig dressers, who had lost their jobs.. | David Alan Grier | ||
| 9a55a4e | where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| cbd69b0 | Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| 55b3b8a | Such labored nothings, in so strange a style,Amaze th' unlearned, and make the learned smile. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| 2d6c7c5 | We had killed them all without firing a shot. I prayed for the snow to fall and bury them for ever. When the snow falls you can almost believe the world is clean again. Is every snowflake different? No one knows. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 57bf699 | In a signed affidavit, William Law affirmed that Hyrum Smith had read to him a revelation "so called" that authorized certain men to have more than one wife. Jane Law added her own statement, explaining that the purported revelation "set forth that those women who would not allow their husbands to have more wives than one should be under condemnation before God." Their statements were powerful because they were simple, straightforward, and .. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ||
| 4b94d1b | At ev'ry Trifle scorn to take Offence, That always shows Great Pride, or Little Sense. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| 5ad9b3b | Jo era felic, pero felic es una paraula adulta. No cal preguntar-li a un nen si es felic, ja es veu. O ho son o no ho son. Els adults parlen de ser felicos perque en general no ho son. Parlar-ne es com intentar atrapar el vent. Es molt mes facil deixar-lo que t'encalci. Quant a aixo, no estic d'acord amb els filosofs. Parlen de coses apassionants pero ho fan sense passio. No parleu mai de felicitat amb un filosof. | happiness | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3d9957c | Diuen que cada floc de neu es diferent. Si aixo fos cert, com podria el mon anar endavant? Com podriem aixecar-nos de les nostres genuflexions? Com podriem recuperar-nos d'una meravella aixi? Oblidant. No podem tenir massa coses al cap. Nomes existeix el present i no hi ha res per a recordar. | present uniqueness | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 489a2ec | On the top of the hill looking out over the town I wanted to see further than anybody had seen. That wasn't arrogance; it was desire. I was all desire, desire for life. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5d09e8c | Let me read to you," said Roger Nowell. "It is a night for reading." | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c48ad88 | Art is about the individual, the individual commitment not tethered to reward. For the maker, and later the reader or the viewer or the listener, there is no obvious reward. There is only the thing-in-itself, because you want it, because you're drawn to it. It speaks to the part of us that is fully human, the part that belongs only to ourselves, not mechanized, socialized, pacified, integrated, but voice-to-voice, across time, singing a son.. | humanity writing | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 106c59a | On the one side there were those who claimed that love, if it be allowed bat all, must be kept tame by marriage vows and family ties so that its fiery heat warms the hearth but does not burn down the house. On the other there were those who believed that only passion freed the soul from its mud-hut, and that only by loosing the heart like a coursing hare and following it until sundown could a man or woman sleep quietly at night. | lust passion romance soul spirit | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 277006e | Would there were a festival for my fears, a ritual burning of what is coward in me, what is lost in me. Let the light in before it is too late. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 038c6f0 | The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe. | dichotomies earth globe map understanding | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 99d9019 | Not so. Fold up the maps and put away the globe. If someone else had charted it, let them. Start another drawing with whales at the bottom and cormorants at the top, and in between identify, if you can, the places you have not found yet on those other maps, the connections obvious only to you. Round and flat, only a very little has been discovered. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 92a8954 | Our rate of conductivity is probably determined by an ability, learned or innate, to make the foreground into the background, so that the distractions of the everyday no longer take up our energy. Monks and contemplatives have tried to achieve this by withdrawing from the world---utter concentration, trance-like concentration, is what is needed. Passion, delirium, meditation, even out-of-body, are words we use to describe the heightened con.. | freedom inspiration mediation | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 5cd3c16 | There is the sailor sea and the commercial sea, the oil-well sea and the fishy sea. The sea that tests the land through sublunary power. The rise and fall of the harbour sea and the sea that exists to make maps look prettier. But the functional sea is not the final sea. There is that other sea simply itself. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2c87e83 | I discovered from my time in the brother that men's members, if bitten off or otherwise severed, do not grow again. This seems a great mistake on the part of nature, since men are so careless with their members and will put them anywhere without thinking. | indiscretion men nature penises | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2ac347f | You can always tell a good woman by her sandwiches, | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 1fb3256 | Las palabras son la parte del silencio que puede ser hablada | silencio | Jeanette Winterson | |
| eef0f70 | Llegara el dia en que los barcos careceran de tripulacion, los aiones no tendran pilotos, las fabricas seran gestionadas por robots, y los ordenadores contestaran el telefono. ?Que sera entonces de la gente? - Si los barcos no hubieran tenido tripulacion cuando tu padre llego a puerto, tu madre no habria sido una deshonra - Y yo no habria nacido - Y no habrias sido huerfana - Si no hubiera sido huerfana, nunca habria conocido a Pew - ?Y eso.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6995a98 | He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2a40154 | There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and the seven seas but looking for a reason to stay. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8c92351 | When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love - its quality - to be unreliable. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f98cd5c | She hated the small and the mean, and yet that is all she had. I bought a few big houses myself along the way, simply because I was trying out something for her. In fact, my tastes were more modest -- but you don't know that until you have bought and sold for the ghost of your mother. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 559ce9c | A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b3e8aa7 | The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class. Books were my birthright too. | class education reading | Jeanette Winterson |