Quotes that Make me Go “Hmmm…”
Posted in Academic Pursuits and tagged with Quote on August 30, 2009“Audrey Raines was willing to give up her life to save mine. I cannot and will not do anything less for her.” 24, Day 6, 11 PM
“Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. – Jeremiah 18:6a, NASB
“It seemed as though her ring said to me, I belong to someone. When I leave here, I go to a house and a home where I belong to another.” – The Friends We Keep by Sarah Zacharias Davis, p. 95
“I am always puzzled when I hear cries about how God has been kicked out of our classrooms. Have those leveling this charge looked at the reading list of their local high schools recently?…Though not my favorite writer, Dickens unabashedly writes about humanity in a way that would embarrass a 21st Century psychologist.” Faith and Pop Culture, p. 30
“Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilisation, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul.” – Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, p. 53
“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.” – Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, p. 315
August 30th, 2009 at 3:38 am
I love that you quoted “24.” Can’t wait for the return of Jack. I could do without Audrey.
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August 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Awesome quotes. Thanks for sharing. I was especially moved by the quote about God being kicked out of our classrooms. I’m going to send it to my mother. I know she’ll like it. She had the privilege to teach in a Catholic school in the 6th grade for a number of years and I know she wouldn’t have traded it for the world. Being able to share her faith with her students was one of the best gifts she felt she could give to them.
August 30th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Anyone who says God isn’t in the classroom has never seen a group of kiddos about to take an Algebra test for which they’re not prepared…
August 31st, 2009 at 9:41 am
I LOVE these! I love the God isn’t in the classroom one and the one about what separates or unites people…especially since my husband eats with his left hand (as in england most people do). :-)
August 31st, 2009 at 10:03 am
The knife and fork thing…having spent a lot of time in Europe, we do eat kinda weird over here :).
Congrats on the new roomie too…can’t wait to see some finished pictures of the pretty new place!
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
That last quote really is a great one!