"No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice."

Source : Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.130, Baker Books

Michael Horton

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“People say, 'Why is he bored with her?' Because he's a human being, that's why; same way his wife is bored with him. That is marriage - anything that's supposed to be forever, your going to get bored with it. And there is nothing wrong with it, so don't take it personal; if you are with somebody for ten years and they are not bored with you? Then something is wrong with them.”
“Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“I want to get out of the major opera houses.”
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”
“I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.”

Source : "Tsang to Hit Ground Running on Universal Suffrage". www.scmp.com. January 25, 2007.
“Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.”
“Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.”

Source : Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.10, Random House
“In the mountains, there you feel free.”

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