“Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.”

Cold is the counsel of women.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

The trilogy of “Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset” and last-year’s “Before Midnight” returns periodically to.

In a way, it’s nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.

People move on after a breakup – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. The thing you have to remember is that it was over for him before he ended it, so he had a head start on the process of getting over it.

They say you’re not punished for your sins, you’re punished by them.

The bottom line for Republicans is this: The United States can have an open door without having open borders, but we cannot preserve the country we love by slamming that door in the faces of those who most aspire to join our nation.

Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance.

Do not follow blindly what you do not know to be true: ears, eyes, and heart, you will be questioned about all these.

This is wrong, wrong, wrong. So why does it feel so damn right.

What systems have you and your worship community built that are keeping you from fully entering into relationship with Jesus?

I heard someone say somewhere that it’s possible to write the sickness out of yourself. And who knows, maybe someone will benefit.

John Calvin comments on today’s passage: God is only rightly served when his law is obeyed. It is not left to every man to frame a system of religion according to his own judgment, but the standard of godliness is to be taken from the Word of God.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

Human nature, as we know it, is in a formative state. It is being changed into the image of the thing it loves.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.

I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.