"Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#Christian Quotes #Giving Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.”
“I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.”
“While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.”
“The history of a people are found in its songs.”
“The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.”
“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).”
“You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.”
“When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.”

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