Tag: Chrestomathy

“We are not to teach what the Bible says in bits and pieces, but rather are to gather it all up in a systematic whole.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 107

“We do not give ten percent so that God will leave us alone with our ninety percent. That would just be an ecclesiastical extortion racket. Rather, we give ten percent as tribute, a ten percent that says in a very tangible way that one hundred percent belongs to God. And it does not really matter how much of it there is. What matters is what percentage of it is blessed.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 106

“The Bible does tell us that God loves a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7), but it does no good to harangue everybody with this glorious truth if the leadership of the church insists on doubling down on all the things that make cheerful giving impossible.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 101

“You cannot love God whom you have not seen, if you do not love your brother, whom you have not paid.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 103

“A poet who has mastered (by imitation) all the classic forms of poetry might be in a good position to develop a new and challenging form. But if he passes by all that, and sits down to write poetry that just expresses himself, then he is likely only to achieve a form of free verse that was invented by junior high girls who had just finished sobbing.”

Ploductivity, p. 82

“Loose living can take many forms—raunchy movies, corrupt friends, ungodly parties, envious snark and complaining, and all the rest of that unsightly crew.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 100

“Work for the work, not the award. Those who work for the work, and not the award, are—get this—more likely to win the award.”

Ploductivity, p. 81

“When we have built something, the pride of man wants to look out over it all, like Nebuchadnezzar on the walls of Babylon, and somehow to take credit. This is the beginning of insanity.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 97

“The kind of ambition that wants to clamber over half-finished work in your initial radius of influence, in order to get that next promotion, is an ambition that is being driven by the wrong kind of motivation entirely.”

Ploductivity, p. 79

“If you want paganism without an attendant contempt for life at the margins, you want something that has never existed.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 95