#formed

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. ↗

— John Piper

#theology #food

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#christianity #francis-schaeffer #legal-theory #politics #reformed

It is better to lose your life than to waste it. ↗

— John Piper

#theology #life

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this? ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#blue #cheese #contains #informed #natural

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#eternity

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#climbing #creeping #doing #meanest #men

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#being #beliefs #curiosity #formed #how

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#country #i #into #jazz #over

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#been #fiercest #firmest #flame #formed