Shaina Herrmann

“In popular usage Grammatica or Grammaria slid into the vague sense of learning in general; and since learning is usually an object both of respect and suspicion to the masses, grammar, in the form grammary comes to mean magic. Thus in the ballad of King Estmere, ‘My mother was a western woman learned in grammarye’. And from grammary, by a familiar sound-change, comes glamour—a word whose associations with grammar and even with magic have now been annihilated by the beauty-specialists.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“When the Bible was written, society was agrarian. There were no smartphones. No helicopters. “You can’t expect us to find answers for these, our postmodern times, in that glaringly pre-modern book.” But that is precisely what we should expect. The Scriptures speak to our condition, and because we are wealthy, they speak to it very directly. But we have to be prepared to listen.”
― Douglas Wilson, Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth

“Anything we do to hinder a dear child from coming to Jesus greatly displeases our dear Lord. He cries to us, "Stand off. Let them alone. Let them come to Me, and forbid them not.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Come Ye Children

“The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked. Worldly people sometimes complain with reason that "religious" persons, so-called, are not so amiable and unselfish and good-natured as others who make no profession of religion. Yet sanctification, in its place and proportion, is quite as important as justification.”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots