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"In our sin, we were a bad work. The grace of God picked us up and placed us on God's workbench, where He made us His project."

"He digs his hand into the crinkly bag, but the Cheeto is too heavy to get back to his mouth."

"Boy, abhor falsehood, that's the first thing! Even in a good cause, that's the second thing..."
Kolya

Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.

"Instead of being on guard for false teachings and analyzing culture in order to sift out the distorting messages, we need to recognize that there are rival liturgies everywhere."

"Instead of being on guard for false teachings and analyzing culture in order to sift out the distorting messages, we need to recognize that there are rival liturgies everywhere."

"God's love for you is the great eternal constant in the midst of all the inconsistencies of your daily walk."

"We start from the image of perfection, and of course, from perfection there is nowhere to go but down."

"By taking its definition of relevance from secular society rather than from the God against whom the significance of all things is measured, it risks making itself instead one of the most irrelevant institutions on earth."

"By taking its definition of relevance from secular society rather than from the God against whom the significance of all things is measured, it risks making itself instead one of the most irrelevant institutions on earth."

"The liberal church solves the problems of the reflective believer by allowing the secular world to determine what issues are important and in what terms those issues will be addressed. Its utmost priority is to be up-to-date and relevant. "

"Why not identify. . . with the liberal church which seems more free of authoritarianism, legalism, and anti-world paranoia? Wouldn't this be the best of both worlds? More likely the worst of both worlds, I'm afraid. "

"Another warns ominously that certain theologians are neo-orthodox, and one marvels at the power of a simple prefix to make something evil out of someone else's struggle to understand God."

"Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter; and we live that way because we have lost the habit of sacrifice and are striving always to avoid it. The false art of our time, mired in kitsch and desecration, is one sign of this."

"Kitsch, the case of Disney reminds us, is not an excess of feeling but a deficiency. The world of kitsch is in a certain measure a heartless world, in which emotion is directed away from its proper target towards sugary stereotypes, permitting us to pay passing tribute to love and sorrow without the trouble of feeling them."

"Art, as we know it, stands on the threshold of the transcendental. It points beyond this world of accidental and disconnected things to another realm, in which human life is endowed with an emotional logic that makes suffering noble and love worthwhile. Nobody who is alert to beauty, therefore, is without the concept of redemption--of a final transcendence of moral disorder into a 'kingdom of ends'."

"The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the subject under discussion than those they are talking with."

"...and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious..."

"By getting out of fellowship. . . I am talking about when you are cranked, annoyed, irritated, bent, frosted, angry, ruffled, or agitated. If you do not like the shape of the other person's head, something is wrong."

"I'm sorry for being mildly annoyed at your egregious behavior just now."

"Spurgeon once said, 'Faults are thick where love is thin.'"

"Marriages can get badly cluttered, like a neglected garage. . . If you have a cluttered garage, you might one day resolve to set aside a Saturday to go out to the garage and work at it all day. Then, when you go out first thing in the morning and open the garage door, all you can do is look at the pile, stare at it for five minutes, and then close the door and go back inside and pray for a fire."