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Tag: Chrestomathy

Never Just Right

Posted on Friday, July 12, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“For the proud and arrogant, it is either too big to confess or it is too small to confess — nothing is ever just the right size to confess” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 98).

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathy

A Real Stand-Out

Posted on Thursday, July 11, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“She was competent, hard-driving, and ambitious, which successfully grouped her in with about three million other blonde local news reporters” (Evangellyfish, p. 187).

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Covering the Wrong Thing Entirely

Posted on Thursday, July 11, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We tend to be very hesitant to ‘cover’ the sins of others, and very quick to ‘cover our own.’ In doing this, we are actually covering our own rear ends and not our sins” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 96).

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Sprayed a Couple Times

Posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“So the meeting began with a financial report, which Bill Turner had prepared for them, the bottom line of which looked like someone had been spraying it with Roundup” (Evangellyfish, p. 184).

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Too Effective

Posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 1 comment

“The power of forgiveness is enormous — the reason it is so infrequently employed is because it transforms everything, and not because it is ‘a dud'” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 96).

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It Was a Fat Robin

Posted on Tuesday, July 9, 2013Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“She was the kind of woman whose absolute support was freely and completely given, until it gave way like a saturated California hillside. Then it was mostly at the bottom with a car or two underneath. The final event that would cause the hillside to give way might be completely trivial — perhaps a robin …

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Central as in Central Heating

Posted on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 2 comments

“An accurate awareness of the other’s faults does not mean that you yourself are sinless. It is, rather, quite possibly an indication that you are the central problem” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 96).

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Arriving Daily

Posted on Friday, July 5, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Pastoral snarls are like the mercies of God — they are new every morning” (Evangellyfish, p. 175).

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Always Ready to Forgive

Posted on Friday, July 5, 2013Friday, July 5, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 20 comments

“But you can have a heart full of forgiveness, full to the brim, ready to overflow the moment repentance appears. Until that happens, there is no forgiveness. We need to distinguish forgiveness in principle and forgiveness accomplished” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 95).

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CategoriesMoney, Love, Desire TagsChrestomathyPractical Christian Living

Straight Out of the Carton

Posted on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 1 comment

“But despite the untruths involved, they nevertheless made good copy, and the editors ate it all up with a spoon, straight out of the carton. One of those editors had read some Derrida in college, and so he was good with the idea of perspectives from every which direction, especially if it made good copy” …

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