What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.
Laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper.
There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.
Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.
Suppers have killed more than doctors have ever cured.
Michael Llewelyn Davies: [about J.M. Barrie] Can we have him for supper? Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Have him to stay for supper, Michael. We're not cannibals.
When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and ot...
To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.
Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions of hatred, but of fatherly love and discipline. Like...
Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made the Lord's Supper too much a place WHERE BELIEVERS DID THINGS FOR GOD - either by offering Christ to God (Rome) or by offeri...
Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and breath of Scripture? Can you not see his promised land flowing with peanut butter and jelly; his apocalypse, in which the great ...
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Is the Lord’s Supper only for Christians? Whenever I ask this question I immediately remember the character of those that partook of the Last Supper with Jesus. They were certainly Jews, some better Jews than others, but Jesus shared this meal know...
Each day when you wake up you have a choice: You can have a good day, or you can have a bad day. So you might as well have a good one.
Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also draw that person close to us...One hand, Christ, opens the relationsh...
America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken beckon beside casseroles of pasta, mounds of tortillas, stew pots of gumbo, and skillets filled with pilafs of ever...
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
She hated Mr. Meanie. But she'd gotten to know him and they'd reached an understanding of sorts. Now she was to have him for supper. "Don't tell me you're feeling guilty?" Breaking off a piece of the wing, she brought it to her lips and took a bite. ...
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.