"In Adam and Eve, we begin naked. In God's city we appear clothed as a bride (Rev. 21:2)."
- Paul Marshall. Modern Technology: idol or divine gift? Evangelical Review of Theology 10 (1986) 261.
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. And yet, I thought something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work; something none of us thought about at the time...” Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1943)
While everyone may have a census divinitatis, Calvin observed that we all refashion that sense of deity to our own interests and desires unless through the Spirit and the Scripture our view of God is corrected and clarified. - Timothy Keller, - Prayer, Experiencing awe and intimacy with God, p. 45 quoted in p.24 Knowing God and knowing Ourselves, David b Colhoun
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might with judgment; for he who fawns for smiles, or trembles at frowns, will never lead a noble life for long. -C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 35 [1889]
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.- Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic, 1957. Quoted in 100 good reasons to be a Republican, "New Statesman", August 2000.
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