"The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest."

-- Emile Souvestre

#Spring Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Spurs Quotes

“Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most dangerous feature of our Church and culture-and the sentimental air is never thicker than at Christmas. The Incarnation is messy, dirty, and resonates with the crucifixion. We need a new wave of carol writing that can gradually swill out the nonsense and catch the piercing, joy-through-pain refrains of the New Testament.”
“Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.”
“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.”
“It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.”
“Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.”
“Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.”
“Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.”
“Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.”

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