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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c5396d | God provides not only in what he gives us, but at times in what he keeps from us. Have you ever noticed that excess money just seems to dissipate in a multitude of directions? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| acbecfc | Jim Elliot put it, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Why work for what has no lasting value? Why rejoice over what in the end will not matter?" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5157a56 | John Wesley said, "A sour religion is the devil's religion."[284] The sure way to have a sour religion is to believe in a sour God. We play right into the devil's hands when we fail to recognize and teach the happiness of God." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| fde32ab | In spending this money, am I acting as if I owned it, or am I acting as the Lord's trustee? * What Scripture requires me to spend this money in this way? * Can I offer up this purchase as a sacrifice to the Lord? * Will God reward me for this expenditure at the resurrection of the just? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5bc46e1 | What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 558ab0c | The principle is timeless: If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 00c208b | God is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1966aa5 | Let us walk as stewards and not act as owners, keeping for ourselves the means with which the Lord has entrusted us. He has not blessed us that we may gratify our own carnal mind but for the sake of using our money in His service and to His praise." --George Muller" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 19408a3 | Augustine was right: "It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy. . . . The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with a pure and holy love to that one supreme good, the unchangeable God." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b2296a2 | Once we understood that we were giving away God's money to do God's work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money! | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d71c3e6 | There is no one human individual or group who can fully bear or manifest all that is involved in the image of God, so that there is a sense in which that image is collectively possessed. The image of God is, as it were, parceled out among the peoples of the Earth. By looking at different individuals and groups we get glimpses of different aspects of the full image of God."30 If this is true, and I believe it may be, then racism is not only .. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5a29f29 | We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our "help" includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and above all to God." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d1d1324 | As a biblical Christian, I must not only affirm the inspiration of God's Word; I must also consciously critique everything else in light of Scripture (otherwise all else will unconsciously conform my mind to the world, the flesh and the devil). I must make an effort to evaluate my beliefs and lifestyle preferences by God's Word. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b3ca12f | The possible abuse of something doesn't nullify its legitimacy." Randy Alcorn" | Roxanne Fawley | ||
| 23dd972 | Robots don't smile because they want to. They're programmed to do so-like humans recently. | the-ghost-in-the-shell | Shirow Masamune | |
| 87d5a4b | So life is like fruit growing on the end of the branches..? -that's right.. -... it's like fruit. | Masamune Shirow | ||
| a071f63 | Emphasizing a lifestyle based on consumption is the ultimate violence against poor countries. | developing-nations oppression politics | Shirow Masamune | |
| 941cac8 | the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| 63fbdc6 | It can't be Miss Worlock, | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| b7a1b45 | May you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them. G. B. Smith's words were a clear call to Ronald Tolkien to begin the great work that he had been meditating for some time, a grand and astonishing project with few parallels in the history of literature. He was going to create an entire mythology. | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| af200a2 | However, one of the reasons for their dissolution is that Hugo Dyson crossed this line. When he persisted in dismissing The Lord of the Rings, it changed the group. Dyson didn't critique the work: he rejected it altogether. That eroded the spirit of the Inklings. It was no longer safe to share rough drafts and far-fetched ideas. When creative people encounter thoughtful critique, they feel empowered. When they encounter dismissal, they stop.. | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| dec0e69 | No Oxford don was forgiven for writing books outside his field of study--except for detective stories which dons, like everyone else, read when they are down with the 'flu. But it was considered unforgivable that Lewis wrote international best-sellers, and worse still that many were of a religious nature." Lewis" | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 947d502 | He captures something of C. S. Lewis in The Lord of the Rings. The character Treebeard makes an unusual "Hrum, Hroom" sound when he speaks. This was Tolkien's attempt to capture the "booming voice" of Lewis. The identification of Lewis with this wise and ancient tree-man should be seen as high praise, indeed, for Tolkien's love for trees is evident throughout his writing. More" | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 46fe055 | As Tolkien got older, he increasingly denied the participation of others in the creation of his work. Tolkien says this is one of the few places where Lewis's detailed criticisms were useful and just. It may be more accurate to say this is one of the few places where Tolkien specifically acknowledges the careful editing of his friend. Changes | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 013a701 | In attacking these readings, Dyson was attacking the very reason for the group; in limiting the participation of one of its members, Dyson eroded its spirit. It is one thing to criticize an author. It is another to shut him down. There is a difference between conflict and contempt. Dyson delivered an axe blow to the root of the tree. The Inklings were shaken, and they never quite recovered. | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 897b1be | But it is far more important to see the difference between correction that is helpful and condemnation that is dismissive and, therefore, destroys. | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| dd2e07d | You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him. | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 4f96f03 | Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He" | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 57c91d8 | Mr Lewis says hobbits are only amusing when in unhobbitlike situations." It" | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| 97f0b12 | Do not all the achievements of a poet's predecessors and contemporaries rightfully belong to him? Why should he shrink from picking flowers where he finds them? Only by making the riches of the others our own do we bring anything great into being. | Diana Pavlac Glyer | ||
| c166084 | Here Tolkien states, in indirect form, one of the deepest of Christian truths: all love that is not ordered to the love of God turns into hatred. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 7f24477 | To console Pippin about the treachery of Gollum, Gandalf reminds him that "a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend" (3.89)." | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 66e0f3a | What makes Galadriel such a remarkable figure is her serenity amidst the coming defeat of her realm and her people. Far from resigning herself to any sort of fatalism, she desires only that the ought shall become the is: "Yet if you [Frodo] succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlorien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and.. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| edab1e0 | Sam Gamgee is the ultimate hero of The Lord of the Rings because he is the ultimate servant. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 03c0f4b | satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149)." | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 4bf56fb | Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like eyebrows just looked to her like shrapnel from a booby-trapped jewelry box. She didn't like it. The fact that Garth's eyebrow was obviously infected proved that she was right, and that the universe didn't like it either. | John Joseph Adams | ||
| 8c96587 | It is... easy to see why Authority frowns on Friendship. Every real Friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion... Hence if our masters... ever succeed in producing a world where all are Companions and none are Friends, they will have removed certain dangers, and will also have taken from us what is almost our strongest safeguard against complete servitude. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves | Colin Duriez | ||
| aae6e12 | He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood." | Colin Duriez | ||
| e27e22e | I see no reason why we should fill our every waking hour with brooding over the evils of the day. At least you will admit it is fun to lean back in a comfortable chair on a cold rainy evening, [...] and escape into the pages of an extravagant romance, if only for an hour or two. | Lin Carter | ||
| e77bc6c | Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?' | Ad Reinhardt | ||
| 86c2ac2 | I meant to ask Hatty questions about the garden,' Tom wrote to Peter, 'but somehow I forgot.' He always forgot. In the daytime, in the Kitsons' flat, he thought only of the garden, and sometimes he wondered about it: where it came from, what it all meant. Then he planned cunning questions to put to Hatty, that she would have to answer fully and without fancy; but each night, when he walked into the garden, he forgot to be a detective, and i.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 38c1d7e | Was his brother's name Cain?' asked Tom. Hatty pretended not to have heard him. This was particularly irritating to Tom, as it was what he had to suffer from all the other people in the garden. 'Because the story of Cain and Abel is in the Bible, and Cain really killed Abel. I don't believe this Abel who gardens here has anything to do with the Bible Abel--except that he was called after him. I don't believe this Abel ever had a brother who.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 52da093 | Fathers--dressed | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 312b046 | Everyone that is not a noble," he lamented, "is a slave." | Harlow Giles Unger |