"The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly."

-- Walter J. Phillips

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“Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.”

Source : Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.”
“Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.”
“Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.”
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
“You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.”
“That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.”
“Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.”

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