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Tag: Selected Quotes

Steep Defiles

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2021Monday, February 1, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“Then the proud prince passed by the crags,
Down steep defiles, and deep under cliffs,
Narrow, unknown, the noble king led them,
Past crags with caves, crags with trolls”

Beowulf, p. 53

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Keeping It Honest

Posted on Friday, January 29, 2021Friday, January 29, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“It is important though that the prayer be a genuine prayer rather than an introduction to the sermon”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 190

CategoriesExpository TagsPreaching the WordSelected QuotesWho Is Sufficient?

That Bog Smokes

Posted on Friday, January 29, 2021Friday, January 29, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“On clear nights uncanny sights go cold to the bone,
The water burns and blazes, that bog smokes.
Our people have not plumbed the perils of that deep”

Beowulf, p. 52

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Monsters of the Mere

Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2021Thursday, January 28, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“One wraith a woman, the other wicked, accursed,
In man-shape, a monster, across marshes and meres
He slipped quietly, silent, skulking through bogs”

Beowulf. p. 51

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Fleeing Maimed

Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2021Wednesday, January 27, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“That fiend then failed, and fled the hall maimed,
Wretched, he ran to the realms of death,
That enemy of men.”

Beowulf, p. 49

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Grim Beast

Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“Grendel’s mother, grim beast, a ghastly dame,
A mother and monster, mourned her loss.
In the dread water, wet doom, she dwelt for centuries”

Beowulf, p. 48

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Blessed and Beloved

Posted on Monday, January 25, 2021Monday, January 25, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“Live blessed and beloved. To these bairns of mine
Show compassion, kindness, and concern for their gladness”

Beowulf, p. 47

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Wyrd Overtook

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2021Friday, January 22, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“But fickle is war, and wasteful, and so wyrd overwhelmed him,
That time when he taunted the terrors of war,
To fight with the Frisians”

Beowulf, p. 46

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Gracious in Greeting

Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2021Thursday, January 21, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“She carried a cup to him, with kindness greeted him,
With gold-wire winding and words that were winsome”

Beowulf, p. 46

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Heroism in Smoke

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2021Tuesday, January 19, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“With the smoke of the slain and the songs of death mingling,
The fire was fierce, the fallen consumed,
Brains boiling over, blood gushing from wounds,
The bodies were bursting, the burning greedily ate
And gone were their great ones, their glory vanished”

Beowulf, p. 44

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

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