Thursday, January 19, 2012

While we're on the topic of books...part 2

...QUOTES...

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
“...simplicity is the ultimate sophistication...”
“...the journey is the reward...”
“...'memento mori': Remember you will die..."

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
"...lost in the meditation of labor..."
"...intellect has no real mettle, you see, and at the first threat, into a hole it scuttles. But love is divine. It comes from the realm of the infinite, and is entrusted to the heart as a gift from God. Love has no calculation in it. ‘God loves you’ is the only possible sentence! So it’s love you must follow to the heart of your father-in-law. Love is the pearl of an oyster living in the ocean, and intellect lives on the shore and cannot swim..."
"...love is the king that must rescue his coward slave..."


The Theology of the Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham
"...John (and thereby his readers with him) is taken up into heaven in order to see the world from the heavenly perspective..."
"...Revelation counters that false view of reality by opening the world to divine transcendence..."
"...the point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment which is impending on the sinful world..."

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