Friday, March 10, 2017

Notable Quotables 3/10/2017

It's Friday, and time for another round up of quotes I gathered from hither and yon. 


"When the psalmist cries out for rescue, “O guard my life, and deliver me” (Ps. 25:20), the poet is not just “trying to revive hope” as an act of self-help—he calls to God for deliverance. In reflecting on this Psalm, John Calvin suggests we are to pray that God “would increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and that he would even raise it up when it is overthrown.”
Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ" by J. Todd Billings 

"The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I’ve known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do."
A Book of Bees" by Sue Hubbell, Sam Potthoff 

Healthy families—the ones where parents give their children discipline, affection, and time—almost always improve over the years, even when they lack many of the advantages and resources that money can buy. Unhealthy families, the ones without discipline and unconditional love, will always struggle, even if they have all the money, tutors, coaches, and technology they could ever want.
The Advantage by Patrick M. Lencioni 

The immature and individualistic mind-set, whether in its Christian or secular form, conceives of an ironically small universe. It makes me bigger and wiser than all those rules and structures and traditions and institutions that would bind me. I become the judge and lord of them all, which presumes that the boundaries of my mental universe encompass everything. My whole universe, then, becomes as big as . . . me—a small universe, indeed
Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age by Mark Dever, Jonathan Leeman 

 "Blücher allowed us no rest.’ As we passed the Marshal … our soldiers began to hurrah, for it was always a delight to them to see the ‘Old One’ as he was called. ‘Be quiet, my lads,’ said he, ‘hold your tongues; time enough after the victory is gained.’ He issued his famous order … which concluded with the words, ‘We shall conquer because we must conquer.’"
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles" by Bernard Cornwell

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