Quotes About Author

To do ought good never will be our task,   But ever to do ill our sole delight,   As being the contrary to his high will   Whom we resist.

that rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

Failure to disclose is a crime in this state. Has she filed a police report?

We were glad, however, to get within reach of information…

Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.

And it struck me, in that year, how deeply both faith and doubt are part of my life. We often think of them as opposites. Many books argue for one or the other. But while in some respects they are enemies, in other ways they are surprisingly alike: both are concerned with ultimate issues; both pop up unasked for at unexpected moments; both are necessary. I

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.9

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.

Faith is most satisfied and cherished with what is infinite and inconceivable, as resting absolutely in divine revelation.

They are neither natural nor moral, but spiritual endowments; for both their author, nature, and object, are respected herein. Their author is the Holy Spirit; their nature is spiritual; and the objects about which they are exercised are spiritual things.

there is inconceivably more evil and guilt in the evil of thy heart that doth remain, than there would be in so much sin if thou hadst no grace at all.

A ministry devoid of spiritual gifts is a sufficient evidence of a church under a degenerating apostasy.

government; instead, they would draw their salaries from the private sector. As a result, their dirty work, if exposed, would be chalked up to corporate greed rather than to government policy.

Read Civilization on Trial and The World and the West.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

Spelling is a pain in the neck. I do my best with it, but I figger if a guy has tremendous gifts as a writer, his audience will forgive a few slip-ups in the spelling department.

You ever run into the Phantom Dog? One of the scariest characters I ever encountered in my whole career.

At worst it was perhaps malevolent mediocrity.

Richard Atleo's Principles of Tsawalk

Prior to deconfliction of the battlespace, enhancement of mission architecture is derecommended, the CO said.

At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.

A book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or beautifully helpful

If you want to write a practical history of the Middle Ages, and to trace the real reasons of the things that actually happened, investigate first the history of the money; and then of the quarrels for office and territory.