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“Acid man, you are,” said Wimsey. “No reverence, no simple faith or anything of that kind. Do lawyers ever go to heaven?
“I would go from being a kind boy to being a very angry one. As time went on, my feelings and outlook on the world festered with the bitterness I felt. Eventually my once-kind heart turned stone cold.”
― Out of the Devils Cauldron
― Out of the Devils Cauldron
“It was bushy-bearded John Peabody, eating by himself, his suitcase on the floor beside his chair.”
― Lord Darcy
― Lord Darcy
“Cultural connections? Where did you learn that? In your metropolitan police cultural classes? He was an Indian Muslim. I’m a Chinese bastard. Apart from eating satay, I’ve probably got more in common with you than him. And we’ve got nothing in common.”
― Bloody Foreigners
― Bloody Foreigners
“The person she liked best didn’t like her enough to want more of her, and she didn’t want to pretend that wasn’t awful.”
― Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
― Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
“First, if we don’t see Him—if we lack His manifest presence—we can’t know Him intimately. We can only know about Him, not unlike my relationship with United States presidents. Or worse, we deceive ourselves by creating a fictional Jesus. This illusion is most dangerous because we believe we know Someone we don’t. James tells us, “But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves” (James 1: 22). One who is fooled believes they know someone or something, but in reality, they don’t.”
― The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life
― The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life
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