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In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.


Douglas Wilson


#classical-education #education

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.


Clarence Darrow


#death #humor #death

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can't understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. " "Bob!" said Mrs. Ray. "You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry." "Cry, eh?" said Mr. Ray, grinning. "In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you're going to be a writer." Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed. "But if you're going to be a writer," he went on, "you've got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#classics #encouragment #fathers #great-books #mothers

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul


Edmond Rostand


#humor #humor

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.


Dorothy Parker


#humor #wordplay #humor

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.


Oscar Wilde


#inspirational #knowledge #philosophy #inspirational

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.


Charles Spurgeon


#devotional-classics #hard-times #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.


Mario Puzo


#life #literature #life

Trifles make the sum of life.


Charles Dickens


#life

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials


Jean Rhys


#literary-fiction #life






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