“The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.” MadePastCausesRealizingCriticalAccidentsFortunateDamageCrewColumbiaFoamRouletteRussian Roulette Author:Wayne Hale
“If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.” IfsThinkingWantShouldLooksHeartMayHas BeensEyePastJesusChristLordFireMastersColdJesus ChristRefuseWarmCriticalChiefsAppealsHopefulOur FutureCommunionOur PastWant USupperLord's Supper Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.” WritingKindDifferentPastUsedPoetryLiteratureFictionTeachReaderCriticalTheoreticalWriting Fiction Author:Nicholas Royle