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Shaina Herrmann
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“But do you want to be efficient like a machine, or fruitful like a tree?”
― Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
― 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.”
― Come Ye Children
― Come Ye Children
“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.”
― The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
― The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“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.”
― Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
― Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“A holy violence, a conflict, a warfare, a fight, a soldier's life, a wrestling, are spoken of as characteristic of the true Christian.”
― Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
― Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
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