"Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony"

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Source : John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.150, SPCK

John Stott

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“A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal”
“Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.”

Source : In his preface to an edition of the Bhagavad Gita,
“Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.”
“Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.”
“I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.”
“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
“Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.”

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