“How useful football is, giving men something to talk about when they have nothing to say.” – In the Name of God by Paula Jolin, p. 48 (and though it’s talking about soccer, I think it applies equally well to American football)
“John Calvin says that Christians ‘are drunk with the false opinion of our own insight and are thus extremely reluctant to admit that it is utterly blind and stupid in divine matters.’ ” – John Calvin quoted in Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies, p. 159
“So you’re saying I once had the ability to interact with human beings?” – The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs, p. 70
“There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.” – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, p. 325
“Yet despite persecution–although there were never as many victims as Christian apologists liked to make out–and despite the increasing moral and cultural gulf that divided Christianity from paganism, the number of converts to the new religion continued to increase. Why is still something of a mystery.” – Worlds at War by Anthony Pagden, p. 130
I am loving that quote about football! How true.
i really like the jane eyre quote, i have only ever seen the movie, i should really read the book….
The football quote is so very true. The IT Crowd’s Bluff Ball takes it one step further: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uoM6p7ueao&NR=1
@Valentine: I read the book back in high school, and only remembered the bare bones of the plot. It’s much better than I remember! Funny, back then I liked Wuthering Heights better, but now I think Charlotte has a leg up on Emily.
@Dan: That’s funny…even though I haven’t a clue what they were saying!
The first definitely works for both versions.
The Bronte Sisters rock, don’t they? But I can never decide whom I favor most: Both Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights are personal favorites, you see. PS: Please don’t forget to join our Sunday Funnies with a visit to Sx3 today!
@Melissa: When I originally read those two books, I preferred Wuthering Heights. Now, on a second read of each, I like Jane Eyre better!
I don’t totally agree with the Calvin quote. God has allowed us to get to know Him. I know Calvin is into the depravity of man, but whether ideas are placed in our heads or we think them ourselves, some of them have to let us know God to a certain degree. I’m imagining he’s speaking against Arminianism in this quote, which is probably why I disagree. I’m a middle-of-the-roader on that debate :)
@Vicki: I’m middle of the road, too, but I don’t think that that is what Calvin was talking about, given that it wasn’t his main thrust in writing in general (though I have no idea the original context of the quote, I only know the context of how Challies used it). I think we’re ALL guilty of thinking we’ve got everything figured out, forgetting that even with God’s help and a lifetime of learning, we know only the tippest top of the iceberg of divine truth.
I loved In the Name of God! :)
@Talia: Me too! I read it on a the recommendation of a friend who couldn’t put it down…I couldn’t either! I think it would make a great book to read with teenagers to discuss worldview in books, because it’s fairly easy to see what the author’s view is and why she wrote the book.