Blair Joscelyne Quotes & Sayings

Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God's way of saving nations. It was a major mistake of the Reformation to have decided to follow Augustine in this matter, taking election to refer to grace and salvation. It manages to make bad news out of good news. It casts a deep shadow over the character of God. At it worst, it can lead to awful consequences in terms of pride, arrogance, superiority, and intolerance as the ideology of election takes hold. It causes the church to become, not a sign of the unity of humanity in the love of God, but the sign of favorites in the midst of the enemies of God. — Clark H. Pinnock

There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part
running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it. — David Levithan

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Diesel sucked air. "You keep fondling me like that, and I might have to marry you."
"I'm not fondling you. I'm looking for the keys!"
"Could you look a little more gently? You're scaring my boys. — Janet Evanovich

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. — Amy Heckerling

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. — Ernest Hemingway,

one leg crossed nonchalantly over the other. — David McCullough

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy. — Anna Quindlen

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them. — Chandler Canterbury

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. — Gerald May

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. — Mark Van Doren

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion. — Queen Latifah

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is. — Gilbert K. Chesterton