Category Archives: Quotations

more felt, not studied

Posted on April 5, 2010 by PaulVK

Nice quote from Sara Miles’ “Take This Bread” Like most of my friends, my passionate left-wing sentiments about civil rights or the women’s movement or Third World poverty or colonialism were felt, not studied, and our grasp of history was … Continue reading →

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Contemporary Freedom and Identity

Posted on March 25, 2010 by PaulVK

This is from a video from http://publicchristianity.org/Videos/ethics_and_the_good_life.html of David Bentley Hart commenting on why he things modernity has struggled with being able to sustain a unified, compelling ethic without a metaphysical base. I thought how he phrased the two perspectives … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis on "Pie in the sky"

Posted on December 29, 2009 by PaulVK

We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about ‘pie in the sky’, and of being told that we are trying to ‘escape’ from the duty of making a happy world here and … Continue reading →

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Trust Rather to Their Friendship

Posted on November 23, 2009 by PaulVK

I’ve started listening to The Tolkien Professor. In his first Tolkien Chat on Knowledge and Evil they discuss a very interesting observation made by Gandolf as Elrond ponders the group that will become the Fellowship of the Ring. Here is … Continue reading →

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From Screwtape Letters, Why God is safe

Posted on November 10, 2009 by PaulVK

One of my favorite Lewis quotes from Screwtape Letters. Remember this is a senior demon’s remarks to his apprentice so you have to kind of read it in reverse: To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the … Continue reading →

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Bruce Waltke's version of Relational Polarity

Posted on November 1, 2009 by PaulVK

Heard this in a Tim Keller sermon. It sounds like Bruce Waltke’s version of what I call “relational polarity” in this context seeing it in the revelation of Old Testament wisdom literature: the difference between just and unjust, righteous and … Continue reading →

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Patience and Endurance

Posted on October 28, 2009 by PaulVK

From NT Wright’s small Tyndale commentary on Colossians: great endurance and patience. Paul singles out these qualities as the weapons one needs to live in the world undaunted by its crises and panics. A patient and longsuffering spirit, the quiet … Continue reading →

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Haddon Robinson's 4 P s of Preaching

Posted on October 28, 2009 by PaulVK

I got these from my friend Kevin Adams who got a DMin from Haddon: There’s pitch, there’s pace, there’s punch and there’s pause, there isn’t any more.

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Follow the Thread

Posted on October 9, 2009 by PaulVK

One of my favorite Tim Keller sermons is entitled “Praying our Fears” (free download). He used an illustration from a George MacDonald fairy tale “The Princess and the Goblin”. Here the little princess meets a “grandmother” who is more than … Continue reading →

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Mabel

Posted on October 3, 2009 by PaulVK

This is from John Ortberg’s book “The Life You’ve Always Wanted“. It’s an amazing story he got from Tom Schmidt from pages 24-28 “The state-run convalescent hospital is not a pleasant place. It is large, understaffed, and overfilled with senile … Continue reading →

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