Shaina Herrmann

“For my part I am persuaded the more light we have, the more we see our own sinfulness: the nearer we get to heaven, the more we are clothed with humility.”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat, Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. The first three constitute the Trivium or threefold way; the last four, the Quadrivium.”
― 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

“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