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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.


A. N. Wilson


#always #bulk #chores #doing #even

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.


A. N. Wilson


#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.


A. N. Wilson


#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.


A. N. Wilson


#feels #oneself #shadow #tolstoy #whether

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.


A. N. Wilson


#death #fear #large #me #never

I had lost faith in biography.


A. N. Wilson


#faith #had #i #lost

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.


A. N. Wilson


#atheist #been #ear #father #friends

In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God’s child the token of the Father’s love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [. . .] Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us.


Andrew Murray


#holy-in-christ #suffering #faith

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.


A. N. Wilson


#deceiving #fear #i #i do #inordinate

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.


A. N. Wilson


#dislike #feel #honest #i #intolerance






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