Vinnie

“Virtue, after all, isn’t just about morals in the sense of “knowing the standards to live up to” or “knowing which rules you’re supposed to keep.” Virtue, as we have already seen, is about the whole of life, not just the specifically “moral” choices.”
― N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

“Beauty, like justice, slips through our fingers. We photograph the sunset, but all we get is the memory of the moment, not the moment itself. We buy the recording, but the symphony says something different when we listen to it at home.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Step-by-Step Basics of Christian Faith and Practice

“I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)

“Heavenly intelligences have witnessed each sin, and have faithfully recorded the same. Sin may be concealed from friends, relatives, and our most intimate associates. None but the guilty actors may have the least knowledge of wrong deeds, but these things are all laid bare before the angels and the inhabitants of other worlds. The darkest of all dark nights, the deepest-laid plot of individuals or nations, can not hide even one thought from the heavenly intelligences. God has a faithful record of every crooked dealing, of every sin and unjust practice. If the inward heart is full of hypocrisy, an outward appearance of uprightness can not deceive Him. As one by one these names are read, the Saviour holds up His hands, still bearing the imprints of the nails of Calvary, and cries, “My blood, Father, my blood, my blood.” Above His throne is the rainbow; mercy and justice mingle there.”
― Stephen Nelson Haskell, The Story of Daniel the Prophet