important rather as an elephant is important, from the size of his department; there are some kinds of importance that remain hopelessly damned to unseriousness.
“The person who is content with the sparse description in Genesis 1 knows that the first six days were like our days within providence, but also unlike, because they were days of God’s activity of initially creating instead of his activity of providential sustaining.”
― Interpreting Eden: A Guide to Faithfully Reading and Understanding Genesis 1-3
― Interpreting Eden: A Guide to Faithfully Reading and Understanding Genesis 1-3
“For some, faith was a life preserver, and life preservers had their place. She was simply more interested in learning to swim.”
― Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel
― Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel
“If an English writer cannot say what he has to say in English, and in simple English, depend upon it, it is probably not worth saying”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America – rich, materialist, and secular – whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“Flavius Marcellinus, tribune and notary, was assigned this position when he presided at the Conference of Carthage in 411, where Caecilianist and Donatist bishops debated which party represented the true church in Africa. He ruled against the Donatists and enforced the legislation which had been held in abeyance during the attempt at reconciliation. Dulcitius, a tribune, was sent by Honorius and Arcadius to Africa in about 420 as an executor, charged with forcing the Donatists to turn over the property that had been remanded to the Caecilianists”
― Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
― Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
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