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“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Even the sweetness of a freshly cut pineapple from Hawaii is a sermon: “Taste and see that the LORD is good” (Ps. 34:8).”
― J.A. Medders, Gospel Formed: Living a Grace-Addicted, Truth-Filled, Jesus-Exalting Life

“By looking inward instead of upward, fixating on our sins instead of Jesus, we are subtly drawn away from the power of Christ.”
― J.A. Medders, Gospel Formed: Living a Grace-Addicted, Truth-Filled, Jesus-Exalting Life

“Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Gospel-driven friends look to the interests of others, because this is the mind of Christ, which is now theirs as well.4”
― J.A. Medders, Gospel Formed: Living a Grace-Addicted, Truth-Filled, Jesus-Exalting Life

“there is plenty of room for meeting in the universe.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“And Sometimes they see themselves as the problem. this is close to the truth, but not close enough. The problem is in us, but it isn't in how we appear or even in how we behave. It's much deeper than that. The Gospel informs us that the real problem is sin, our unbelief in God.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“In the New Testament, we don't find our gift through self-examination and introspection and then find ways to express it. Instead, we love one another, serve one another, help one another, and in so doing we see how God has equipped us to do so.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe, though. We sit in our pews, or behind our pulpits, knowing that our children watch "Christian" cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates and know all the right "worldview" talking points. And we're content with the world we know, just adjusted a little for our identity as Christians. That's precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers, why our prayers rarely reach the level of "groanings too deep for words" (Rom 8:26). We are too numbed to be as frustrated as the Spirit is with the way things are.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“How often do I rage rather than lament?”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“Churches that don’t celebrate children aren’t going to celebrate evangelism. After all, the “be fruitful and multiply” clause in Genesis is echoed in the Great Commission of Jesus (Matt. 28:16–20), a mission that also seeks to fill the entire earth.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adoption: What Joseph of Nazareth Can Teach Us about This Countercultural Choice

“When we find our identity anywhere other than Christ, our churches will be made up of warring partisans rather than loving siblings.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“The whole universe is now an orphanage. But then there's Jesus. When we were still orphans, Christ became a substitute orphan for us. Though he was a son, he took on the humiliation of a slave and the horror of death.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“The demonic powers hate babies because they hate Jesus. When they destroy “the least of these” (Matthew 25:40, 45), the most vulnerable among us, they’re destroying a picture of Jesus himself.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“The Reformation meant more than just a change in humanity's relationship with God. By eliminating the confessional, it warned people that henceforth they would have to walk on their own two feet and would have to take responsibility for the consequences of their own decisions.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

“Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

“The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

“Husbands must, therefore, concentrate on being strong for the sake of their wives. Ungodly men are strong for selfish reasons, and not for the sake of others. A godly husband uses his strength to give to her; he does not use his strength to take from her.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage

“Christian men ought not refrain from the sexual pollutions that surround us because they object to lovemaking; they refrain because they object to the wanton vandalism of it. Our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with their mouths open do to food.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

“There is no such thing as 'invisible' honor or respect.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

“A husband cannot say, "All my behavior notwithstanding, I still honor my wife, even though I never show it." Husbands must honor their wives.”
― Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
― John Buchan

“You will never hear a bird cry or a sheep bleat or a weasel scream.”
― John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers

“For I was only a young lad, and my life had been bleak and barren. Small wonder that the call of youth set every fibre of me a-quiver.”
― John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers

“It is the place and time for dark deeds, for the heart grows savage; and if two enemies met in the hollow of the mist only one would go away.”
― John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers

“I see now that the wind must have veered to the south-east, and that my plan was leading me into the fastnesses of the hills; but I would have wandered for weeks sooner than disobey the word of the girl who sang in the rain.”
― John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers

“In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one...

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― John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers