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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3aaff10 | Sandy was fascinated by the economy of Teddy Lloyd's method, as she had been four years earlier by Miss Brodie''s variations on her love story, when she had attached to her first, war-time lover the attributes of the art master and the singing master who had then newly entered her orbit. Teddy Lloyd's method of presentation was similar, it was economical, and it always seemed afterwards to Sandy that where there was a choice of various cour.. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 61a89db | Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty. | Ben Hecht | ||
| dda8396 | A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it." | Ben Hecht | ||
| 898812f | How My Egoism Died | Ben Hecht | ||
| 760785a | Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance. | Ben Jonson | ||
| 136c755 | She stopped at the foot of the trio of beach chairs and smiled down at Richter and his men. Richter was in the middle. The one on the left was a hairy beast of a man with the fat-over-muscle build of someone who'd earned their conditioning from life experience, not a gym bike. Someone who possessed the brute core strength to physically break you. The man on the right was younger and leaner, but still carried plenty of brawn. It squared with.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 411d563 | That old bald cheater, Time. | Ben Jonson | ||
| 22a1c27 | That's a perfect clone of Richter's phone. Has all his voice mails, text history, contacts, data usage, apps. More importantly, every call or text that comes to Richter will first hit us. We'll have the option to intercept, pass along, or kill it. You'll see the incoming texts and calls on that phone. I'll see them on my laptop. If it's okay with you, I'll just set up my base of operations here. | Blake Crouch | ||
| d96f3a8 | I make a phone call, and you spend the rest of your life in prison, possibly death row. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ae20b4a | Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. | Ben Jonson | ||
| e134d67 | The world knows only two, -- that's Rome and I. | Ben Jonson | ||
| 8d1f441 | It's a strange thing, being the parent of a teenager. One thing to raise a little boy, another entirely when a person on the brink of adulthood looks to you for wisdom. I feel like I have little to give. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8840b84 | Calumnies are answered best with silence. | Ben Jonson | ||
| 383b6af | Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression. | Ben Jonson | ||
| d0cf639 | Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast. | Ben Jonson | ||
| 764709c | It was the strangest sort of fear. Unspecified. Like walking in the woods at night, not knowing exactly what you should be afraid of, and the fear all the more potent precisely because of its mystery. | Blake Crouch | ||
| bce05ef | You're saying that, out of an infinite number of realities, I intentionally picked this shithole?" "Not intentionally. Maybe it's a reflection of what you were feeling at the moment you opened the door." -- | Blake Crouch | ||
| 264cff0 | Everyone black-suited. None younger than thirty, none older than forty-five. Each exuding his own special brand of ex-military, fucked-by-life hardness. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 9f17e51 | She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations. | Blake Crouch | ||
| e4cbe90 | It took Letty four tries to get her left leg through the harness. Isaiah watching her from the window. He said, "You gotta lock that shit down." "Lock what down?" "Your panic." | Blake Crouch | ||
| bc729cf | Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat. | Ben Jonson | ||
| 8f87036 | And with an inventiveness no one would have suspected from the standard of Stanley's school work: | Ruth Rendell | ||
| dc1916b | Letty sat on a velvet couch, propped up with pillows. Rich royal-purple drapes everywhere she looked. Ivy walls. Candlelight. She had the best lamb she'd ever tasted. Must've been fed gold flakes and the milk of the gods. The bread cart was legendary. Like baked clouds. Everything plated as beautifully as jewelry. The artistic detail more precise than coinage. | Blake Crouch | ||
| feb0cd3 | I'm often asked how Chad and I approach the process of cowriting a script. We figured out an egalitarian method (well, to be fair, it was Chad's idea). | Blake Crouch | ||
| 7c7f582 | your own now. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a5bf998 | work: | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 65b9c52 | Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| f18ab37 | When the benefits are seen as abstractable from the Benefactor the issue becomes: 1) For the preacher: "How can I offer these benefits?" and 2) For the hearer: "How can I get these benefits into my life?" But when it is seen that Christ and his benefits are inseparable and that the latter are not abstractable commodities, the primary question becomes: 1) For the preacher: "How do I preach Christ himself?" and 2) For the hearer: "How do I ge.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 507a549 | Matthew 22:4 ("Everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast"), he addresses the issue of "those to whom the offer is made": It is not one or two, or some few that are called, not the great only, nor the small only, not the holy only, nor the profane only, but ye are all bidden; the call comes to all and every one of you in particular, poor and rich, high and low, holy and profane. Then Durham continues: We make this offer to all of you, t.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| a0556c4 | In Christ we are no longer dominated by the flesh, but by the Spirit; but we are not yet delivered from the flesh. So long as this eschatological tension exists for the believer, so long will there be--in Calvin's view--a gap between the definition of faith and the actual experience of the believer: | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 659746d | Repentance then is not the punctiliar decision of a moment but a radical heart transformation that reverses the whole direction of life. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 8bbf981 | Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace. . . . By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense of the odiousness of sin, not only of its danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature and righteous law of God, and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for and hates his sins as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavoring to walk with him i.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 0e516cd | Repentance is suffused with faith; otherwise it is legal. But then without repentance, faith would be no more than imagination. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 87a0a9f | At the end of the day we cannot divide faith and repentance chronologically. The true Christian believes penitently, and he repents believingly. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| fd6df50 | This same distortion appears when the gospel is preached to the natural man. Boston was all too familiar with the instinct of the awakened individual to say, "I will now try much harder, and I will do better." It seems logical: I realize I have failed. I must reverse this failure by doing better. But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit." | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 3969446 | God's covenant is his sovereign, freely bestowed, unconditional promise: "I will be your God," which carries with it a multidimensional implication: therefore "you will be my people."36 By contrast, a contract would be in the form: "I will be your God if you will live as becomes my people." | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 76e3900 | Jesus did not come to add to our comforts. He did not come to help those who were already helping themselves or to fill life with more pleasant experiences. He came on a deliverance mission, to save sinners, and to do so He had to destroy the works of the Devil (Matt. 1:21; 1 John 3:8b). | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| fb3a6b0 | And, with a disregard for other things, he cherished and experienced That blessed communion with God about which he wrote. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| c927293 | Faith and repentance are not static, the decision of a moment; they are the lifelong realities of a new heart (8:10; 10:16). | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 392cda1 | pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| d6f3f74 | What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them--asking no questions--no qualifications or conditions required? | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| bea584d | The Marrow Controversy raised a major question about how the gospel is to be preached. But the answer to that question depends on our answer to a more fundamental one: What is the gospel? Contemporary discussion simply underlines how central this question is and the extent to which the answer we give determines how we preach and communicate the gospel. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| b31f755 | To run, to work, the law commands, The gospel gives me feet and hands. The one requires that I obey, The other does the power convey. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| f5c2860 | Antinomianism may be couched in doctrinal and theological terms, but it both betrays and masks the heart's distaste for absolute divine obligation, or duty. That | Sinclair B. Ferguson |