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“The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“He had always disliked the people who encored a favorite air in an opera—“That just spoils it” had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backward . . . was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself—perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defense against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film. He”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“When Jesus talks about the Sabbath, he makes statements that seem unrelated to rest if we think of it in terms of relaxation. In Matthew 12:8, he is the Lord of the Sabbath. When we realize that the Sabbath has to do with participating in God’s ordered system (rather than promoting our own activities as those that bring us order), we can understand how Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. Throughout his controversies with the Pharisees, Jesus insisted that it was never a violation of the Sabbath to do the work of God on that day. Indeed, he noted that God is continually working (Jn 5:17). The Sabbath is most truly honored when we participate in the work of God (see Is 58:13-14). The work we desist from is that which represents our own attempts to bring our own order to our lives.2 It is to resist our self-interest, our self-sufficiency and our sense of self-reliance.”
― The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
― The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
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