February 2012
1 post
“It has been commonplace to interpret Jesus’ temptations as analogous to,...”
– Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
“The conception of Jesus by the Spirit underlines both his identification with...”
– Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
January 2012
7 posts
One of my favorite jokes:
So this guy is taking his girlfriend to the high school prom. And he’s got a lot of work to do.
First he has to rent a tux, so he goes to the tuxedo store. But there’s a huge tuxedo line at the store. Finally he gets out of there and realizes he has to go buy a corsage, so he goes to a florist. But there’s this big long corsage line at the florist. Finally he gets the corsage...
“Many of our greatest heroes were men and women who were willing to rock the...”
– Columnist Jonah Goldberg
“To eliminate the vice of wordiness is to ensure the virtue of emphasis, which...”
– Wilson Follett
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least...”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
Ron Paul's "Un-electability"
“It’s amazing that I do so much better than those other candidates that are all electable. They’re all in fourth, fifth and sixth place, but they’re all electable, but I come in second or third, and all of the sudden people say, ‘Oh, he’s not electable.’ I don’t know how that adds up.”
-Ron Paul (via CBS News)
Funny how the “media”...