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I’d rather have a man at my back who knows the consequences of an error than a cocksure idiot who has never made one.”
“Glory be to God, Time itself will be redeemed, because it will no longer be an adversary, but a friend, an everlasting Sabbath, an unending feast.”
― The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
― The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
“Old sins have long shadows,” quoted Poirot. “As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.”
― Hallowe'en Party
― Hallowe'en Party
“It's true that people need places to live, and I don't begrudge anyone the dream of owning a pretty house for their kids to grow up in—but I believe we need more than just houses. We need homes, and a home is more than just the four walls where we eat and sleep and watch Netflix. It's a place that shapes and gives meaning to our lives. We need Places with a capital P, places that honor the community's history, the sacredness of creation, and our basic human need for beauty and nature.”
― The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
― The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
“Remember too that to me the word myth, like the words fable and fiction, is a technical term in criticism, and the popular sense in which it means something untrue I regard as a debasing of language.”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“Trees need to be still in order to grow. We need to be still in order to see that God’s work in us and around us is often slow and quiet, patient and steady.”
― The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
― The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
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