Malcolm Martin

‘the inner voice of the postmodern ironist is becoming a part of everybody's psychological makeup … If we learn to hear that voice in a constructive (and constructivist) way, it becomes a guide to living in today's multi-worldview world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘In this rabbinic tradition, still living today, the purpose of argument was and is not so much to arrive at a correct answer as to encounter God in, and let ourselves be formed and changed by, the process of the argument itself.’ #booksky #bookoftheday #books

‘That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘My soul magnifies the Lord
and I dance with God who liberates me, for she has remembered with love
the whispered song of her shadow … the One who is Love has cradled my life in her arms and beautiful is her name. Her tenderness enfolds our brokenness through all generations.’ #bookoftheday #Advent

‘He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperone.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

'None of us know what tomorrow will bring, none of us truly know the road marked out for us, but we can choose to be like Mary, following where God leads, being unafraid and trusting in a God who has calmed the seas, healed the lame and brought wise men to their knees.' #booksky #Advent

‘those who administer or possess sovereignty always try to surround their highhanded actions with an aspect of legality and to persuade the people that they act from good motives; this they are easily able to effect when they are the sole interpreters of the law.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘In the reception of Isaiah's message of justice by the Church, we are invited to consider Jesus' experiences of injustice, our own guilt in injustice, our call to seek justice right now, and the hope Isaiah offers to weary pilgrims who long for a just world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘I've learned one thing as a soldier … which is that the sensible thing never gets done.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Sharpe

‘Learners need to be encouraged to be honest with each other, to challenge each other's knowledge and to admit when they are wrong or don't know the answer … facts are approached on many occasions from different directions and in different contexts.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘The trinitarian mystery beckons us toward social forms in which all relations between persons and institutions are valued, in an egalitarian way, one of kinship and respect for differences. Only thus will oppression be overcome and life and freedom triumph.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘She was enough of a
Californian to resent being called an American.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘the last thing the Church exists to be is an organization for the religious. Its charter is to be the servant of the world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Cadfael

‘To keep the prophetic light shining, attending to the biblical accounts of the prophets and to the biographies of modern people who embraced the struggle for justice is a good start - a good start on a journey that has us walking in the prophetic tradition.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘Beauty takes the pursuit of goodness past mere personal ethical conduct to the work of intentionally doing good to and for others. Beauty takes the pursuit of truth past the accumulation of knowledge to the proclamation and application of truth in the name of caring for others.’ #booksky

‘We don’t need to show we’re patriotic, sir. I mean, this is Ankh-Morpork. We don’t have to make a big fuss about being the best, sir. We just know.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Pratchett

‘Western culture came to separate the world of work from the world of home and to imply that the world of work is more important, and it thus devalued motherhood. Genesis counters all that.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘I get to be a person for a living. A person who every morning thinks about her quirky little church and prays, Oh God, it's so beautiful. Help me not f**k it up.’ #bookofthday #booksky #books

‘You are either an idiot or a saint, and I am not in the mood at present to have much patience with either.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Cadfael

‘There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear
in the water.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘But what have either of them ever done except learn Latin? Have they ever planted a field of wheat? Set up a factory? Dug a canal? They were born, Sharpe, that's all that ever happened to them, they were born.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Sharpe

‘God invites us, entices us, provokes us and waits for us to share himself … so in our life, pilgrimage and ministry now he is inviting us to share in discovery, developing and showing partial and temporary outcomes of and preprations for his love, beauty, joy, purpose and peace.’ #booksky #books

‘Whenever you feel like criticising any one, just remember that all of the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Gatsby

‘This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Barth

‘We are all called to take new steps of faith that involve leaving our comfort zones - whether that is by choice, or more often than not, being forced out of the safety of the nest we have known.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books

‘“È un diavolo incarnato! You know the proverb?” She did not. Nor did it seem applicable to a young man who had spent a quiet winter in Rome with his mother. But Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing.’ #bookoftheday #booksky

‘it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it … anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books