“What is wrong with you, Jeffrey?”
“Well, Shirley, since you have clearly failed to grasp the central insipid metaphor of those Twilight books you devour, let me explain it to you: men are monsters who crave young flesh. The end.” – Community, “Anthropology 101″
“The revelation of God in his awesome glory is the only thing that exposes the utter emptiness of all the other glories we crave.” - Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul Tripp, p. 99
“First, North American Christians are simply not doing enough. We are the richest people ever to walk the face of the earth. Period. Yet, most of us live as though there is nothing terribly wrong in the world. We attend our kids’ soccer games, pursue our caareers, and take beach vacations while 40% of the world’s inhabitants struggle just to eat every day.” - When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikker, p. 28
“If we were honest, we would have to confess that the central prayer of our hearts is ‘my kingdom come.’ ” - Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul Tripp, p. 105
“I know now how you can take one step and you can’t stop yourself from taking another. I know now what it means to want. I know it can get you to a place where there’s no way out. I know now there’s no such thing as just one. But I didn’t know it then.” – What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell, p. 42
“Why insecure? Yer a pretty girl, if you were legal I’d totally have asked for naked pictures by now.” Despite the implications of what he’d said, the immediate thought that came to my mind was That’s got to be in the top five nicest things a guy has ever said to me. – Alexis by Alexis Singer, p. 32
In all of his life, these two murders were the most meaningful things that have ever happened to him. He was living, truly and deeply, no matter what other’s might think, looking at him with their blind eyes.” – Native Son by Richard Wright
“My concern for the poor and for social justice made many evangelicals suspect that I was theologically liberal. I never did understand those folks. I never questioned that the Bbile was totally true.” – Dr. John Perkins quoted in When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, p. 11
“Because we are worshipers by nature we are always (1) giving proper worship to God, (2) serving something else, or (3) worshiping ourselves, demanding to be the center of our own universe. Isn’t that what fantasy is about? In a person’s disappointment with the real world, he creates worlds of his own where everyone does his bidding. Who has ever fantasized about someone saying ‘no’? Fantasy is an attempt to be God.” - Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul Tripp, p. 45
“The thing to do was to act like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted. They would never know.” – Native Son by Richard Wright
“I’ve seen a lot of people on the news mocking the concept of Internet addiction or addiction to social network sites like Facebook or MySpace, but it isn’t so funny when it actuall happens. And it does. I’m living proof.” – Alexis by Alexis Singer, p. 12
“If the East Germans tore down the Wall today,” said oneo f the Federal Republic’s ranking diplomats to the GDR, “we would have to build another tomorrow.”
“We don’t want to depopulate East Germany; we want to see living conditions improve, so that they will stay home,” a top immmigration officer told me. – The Year that Changed the World by Michael Meyer, p. 118