"In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective."

-- Oliver D. Crisp

#Book Quotes #Order Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.”
“Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming!”
“The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.”

Source : Alec Guinness (1998). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Penguin Mass Market
“He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.”
“I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.”

Source : Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnutsâ€‰â€”â€‰just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”
“Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.”
“You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”

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