Due to time limitations and lack of quote material, What Susan Said will be indefinitely discontinued. If you’ve enjoyed this blog, leave a comment and let me know; maybe you’ll change my mind. If you want to send me some quotes, email me at aarontelian(at)gmail.com and I would be delighted to post them here.
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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We are drawn to stories because our own life is a story and we are looking for help.
-Daniel Taylor, as quoted in Leland Ryken, Ed., The Christian Imagination, (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2002), 407
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
-Phillip Yancey
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The thing that will most transform your prayer life is realizing God is listening to you.
-Jared Wilson, The Gospel-Driven Church
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.
-Russian Proverb
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
True Christian imaging meets violence head-on, mine and the world’s, but also God’s… We must learn early to seek God within the wounds that reality inflicts.
-Janine Langan, as quoted in Leland Ryken, Ed., The Christian Imagination, (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2002), 75
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is plausible and impossible is better than what is possible and implausible.
-Aristotle, as quoted in Leland Ryken, Ed., The Christian Imagination, (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2002), 429
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We must insist, in a cynical age, that there is such a thing as a good story. We should identify and prize the good stories from the past, and we must fulfill our responsibility to tell new ones.
-Daniel Taylor, as quoted in Leland Ryken, Ed., The Christian Imagination, (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2002), 425
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There exists a quality which is nameless. It may be gravity,but the word does not satisfy me, for the quality I have in mind can be accompanied by the most cheerful gaiety. It is the quality of the carpenter face to face with his block of wood. He handles it, he takes its measure. Far [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is the inescapable nature of reality to move from beginnings to middles, from simplicity to complication, from innocence to experience.
-Daniel Taylor, as quoted in Leland Ryken, Ed., The Christian Imagination, (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2002), 418
