"There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out."

-- Alistair Begg

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Religion Quotes

“The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”
“It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.”
“For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.”
“... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.”
“There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.9, Faber & Faber
“We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.”
“Why does Ian think I have to kiss you?”
“These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.”

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