Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Newsweek interview (2004)
"The Library".
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Newsweek interview (2004)
“[T]here is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world.”
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
"What Think You of the Cross?", p. 284
Startling Questions (1853)
“[T]here is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.”
Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) French writer
Chantal de Clergerie, p. 26
La joie (Joy) 1929
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Source: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 644.
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 7
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
"Sense and Sensibility"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
“I have been there, and still would go;
'T is like a little heaven below.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 28: "For the Lord's Day Evening".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)