Genitive Prepositions Quotes & Sayings

I've said it once and I will say it again, why can't everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go - why can't
other nations? — Louise Rennison

What justifies specifically churchly exegesis of Scripture? Can church doctrine guide our reading? Why should it? Why should we interpret the story of Abraham and Isaac by the passion of Jesus? The answer is bluntly simple: What justifies churchly reading of Scripture is that there is no other way to read it, since "it" dissolves under other regimes. Thus a hermeneutical exhortation from this first perspective. Be entirely blatant and unabashed in reading Scripture for the church's purposes and within the context of Christian faith and practice. Indeed, guide your reading by church doctrine. For if, say, the doctrine of Trinity and Matthew's construal of the passion do not fit each other, then the church lost its diachronic self in the early fourth century at the latest, and the whole enterprise of Bible reading is moot. The question, after all, is not whether churchly reading of Scripture is justified; the question is, what could possibly justify any other? — Ellen F. Davis

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around. — Patricia Ireland

He was too damned grateful to have her. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. — Liane Moriarty

He realized that he was thinking of his past, as if certain days of it were spread before him, demanding to be seen again. — Ayn Rand

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. — Jim Butcher

Each instant is another chance. — Anvar Eshov