Notable Quotables

 
"There go my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader!" -Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

"And wherever a people is swallowed up in politics, the preacher is apt to be neglected; unless he imperil his preaching by adjusting himself to political or social methods of address."

Positive Preaching and Modern Mind: The Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching, Yale University, 1907 by Peter Taylor Forsyth

Good advice for preaching outlines too:

 "For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what’s superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, or especially cut is essential. It’s satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp."

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) by Francine Prose

And that's why the bottom is crowded:

"We had nowhere to go but up. Still, up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic."

It's Your Ship by Michael Abrashoff

Danger! Danger everywhere!

"It is very pretty," said Mr. Woodhouse. "So prettily done! Just as your drawings always are, my dear. I do not know any body who draws so well as you do. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her shoulders—and it makes one think she must catch cold." "But, my dear papa, it is supposed to be summer; a warm day in summer. Look at the tree." "But it is never safe to sit out of doors, my dear."

Emma by Jane Austen