“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?” IfsStoriesLightFightingWinningLeftStrongDarkFictionMysteryDrinkBedClaimsTrainChairsCompanionSubstitutesSlipsRemorseHangoverOpiatesStrong Drink Author:Mary Cantwell
“I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing a biblically literate laity. When we think of evangelism, evangelicals are the most resourceful, the most intrepid, and the most creative. But evangelicals themselves would say that they have never come to grips with what the whole mystery of the church is.” ThinkingWholeHandsWinningChurchCreativeMysteryNurtureEvangelismNurturingEvangelicalResourceful Author:Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
“The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.” WorldChildrenFatherWinningMysterySucceedAffectionFatherhood Author:John Piper
“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.” DoeWinningGrowthBornEnvironmentMysteryBirthArgumentBoringOur EnvironmentSimplify Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.” IfsTwoAsksWinningLosesPoorLaughingMysteryWallPrayingBlessingMoonNewsBirdFlowDown AndCourtPrisonTalesTheeAsk MeButterflyPacksCagesSpySectsGreat OnesRoguesEbb And FlowGildedCordelia Author:William Shakespeare
“In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.” WorldLittlesPersonsValuesEvilWinningDarknessStruggleMysteryObjectsBattleWeaponsAngelWarriorBeesSuperheroWickednessAvengingLittle Bee Book:Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero Source: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero