D.A. Carson Quotes
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame.
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.
Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
There is no freedom without bravery.
It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.
Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove.
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.
Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness, " I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud
I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing.""It's insane, " he says, but without vehemence."It's faith, " I say.
Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.
Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nounsMenReasonTreasonDeathShip of StateMineChorus: "mine" isn't a nounKreon: it is if you capitalize it
In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.
It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.
To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.
I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.
I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.
I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.
He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.
ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell.""It sounds evil.""It is, " I answered, and we parted.
In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.
Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, l
