"The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book."

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Source : Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan

Leland Ryken

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Unique Quotes

“Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe thatâ€™s been to Kelso three times, and theyâ€™ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.â€ Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. â€œThoughtless creatures. Theyâ€™ve forgotten the fish.”
“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society.Â The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.”
“I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.”
“Make believe I'm right.”
“When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.”
“I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.”

Source : Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 10, 2003.
“Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.”
“Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.”

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