#chat

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#chat #come #famous #famous people #honour

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#bumper #bumper sticker #business #case #certain

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#began #cafe #called #chatting #column

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #man #mind #sick #whose

Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#england #my own #own #show #then

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be. ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#change

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#age

The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small groups were founded had known, in their conversion, one way or another, a first coming of their Redeemer. And then? And then! That was the consequent task and trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited for his further exhibition of himself. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as catholic — as universal and as durable — as time. ↗

— Charles Williams

#eschatology #theology #communication

Bold courage is paralyzing fear after humble prayer. ↗

— Kenneth E. Nowell

#christian #end-times #eschatology #prophecy #thriller