"Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric."

-- N.D. Wilson

#Narrative Quotes #Rhetoric Quotes

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”
“Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.”
“In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!”
“I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.”
“What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.”

Source : Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.123
“All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.”
“Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.”

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