"You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned."

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Source : FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Aug 31, 2013

Paul David Tripp

#Would Be Quotes

“It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.”
“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.”

Source : Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.”
“Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.”
“Iâ€™m so sorry to disappoint you,â€ she said, breathing hard. â€œBut it would take far more than that to scare me.â€ A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, â€œGod, I was hoping youâ€™d say that.”
“The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the motherâ€™s convenience.”
“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”
“Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.”

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