"The heart of a true penitent is like a burnt child that dreads the fire." (Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections, pg. 291)
"The first thing you got to understand is that I aint got a original thought in my head. If it aint got the lingerin scent of divinity to it then I aint interested." (Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited, pg. 13)
"When the impossible day comes that Christ breaks his vow, 'I am with you always, to the end of the age', then on that day, a human being may break his marriage covenant." (John Piper, This Momentary Marriage, pg. 168)
"It was a favorite saying of one of President Jefferson's twentieth-century successors, Dwight Eisenhower, that in war, before the battle is joined, plans are everything, but once the shooting begins, plans are worthless. The same aphorism can be said about exploration." (Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, pg. 81)
"There is a difference, of course, in how unbelievers and believers regard sin: unbelievers cling to sin, while sin clings to believers." (Joel Beeke, Walking as He Walked, pg. 96)
"Sometimes only the law can fully vindicate our values, particularly when the rights and opportunities of the powerless* in our society are at stake." (Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, pg. 62)
"To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born." (A.P. Gouthey, as quoted by Lawrence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations, pg. 427)
"When people are convinced you will do everything in your power for their good and nothing for their harm, they'll trust you." (John MacArthur, The Book on Leadership, pg. 12)
"Aesop told of a dog who was crossing a bridge with a bone in his mouth. He looked over the edge and saw his reflection in the clear stream. The bone in the water looked better than the one in his mouth; so he gavbe up the reality for the reflection. My great fear is that there are many Christians who, with great zeal but lacking knowledge, are doing the very same thing." (John MacArthur, Charismatic Chaos, pg. 321)
"This reward which free grace gives is so transcendently great that could we have but a glimpse of glory revealed to us here, we should need patience to be content to live any longer." (Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance, pg. 83)
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made." (Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales [The Masque of the Red Death], pg. 132)
"If we ask, 'How can I know the will of God?' we may be asking the wrong question. The Scriptures do not command us to find God's will for most of life's choices nor do we have any passage instructing on how it can be determined. Equally significant, the Christian community has never agreed on how God provides us with such special revelation. Yet we persist in searching for God's will because decisions require thought and sap energy. We seek relief from the responsibility of decision-making and we feel less threatened by being passive rather than active when making important choices." (Haddon Robinson, as quoted by Mark Chanski, Manly Dominion, pg. 84)
"...the Minnesota Vikings can happen to anyone -- even someone who should know better. My somewhat lame excuse is that I really did not have a choice. I was turned into a Vikings fan long before I knew the consequences and I cannot help myself now." (Ken Richotte, My Least Favorite Team is My Favorite Team, pg. 9)
"The rain falls upon the just and also on the unjust fellas. But mostly it falls upon the just, cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas." (Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason, pg. 38)
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