Quotes About Wrappings

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more. Breathless I unwrap the package. Never lived this day before.

While Genesis borrows the science of its day, it does so in order to make its main points about Who created the world and What it is made up of--nature, human nature, supernature. Failure to distinguish between these two kinds of issues has caused people to miss the doctrine and concentrate instead on its wrappings.

It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.