And the quotes in plain text.
A text without a context is a pretext.
Quoted from unknown source by Rev. D. Hermerding
Gramercy, fellow; there, drink that for me.
Richard III — Shakespeare
Et tu, Brutè? Then fall Caesar.
Julius Caesar — Shakespeare
Syme sat down at a café table with his companions, his blue eyes sparkling like the bright sea below, and ordered a bottle of Sammur with a pleased impatience.
The Man who was Thursday: A NIghtmare — G. K. Chesterton
Light hath no tongue but is all eye;
‘Breake of Day’ — John Donne
Charles Edward Telfair probably didn’t recognize how important his bananas would become.
In leading up to this position, the logical analysis of science decisively reveals its own limitations and points beyond itself in the direction of a fiduciary formulation of science, to which I propose to move on at a late stage of enquiry.
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy — Michael Polanyi
But this leviathan, or perverse notion concerning works, is unconquerable where sincere faith is wanting.
On Christian Liberty — Martin Luther
Thanks to the Zwickau discovery we can date his study of Augustine as far back as the autumn of 1509.
Luther: Man between God and the Devil — Heiko Oberman
The fallacy of presentism is a complex anachronism, in which the antecedent in a narrative series is falsified by being defined of interpreted in terms of the consequent.
Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought — David Hackett Fischer
When noble Coön, Antenor’s eldest son, saw this, sore indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother.
The Illiad — Homer
When the child of the morning, rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, they again yoked their horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing gatehouse.
The Odyssey — Homer
You cannot, for example, use Shakespeare’s Othello as a guide for brain surgery. At least, if your brain surgeon tells you that that is where he obtained his knowledge of surgical procedure, I would strongly recommend you ask for a second opinion.
Nero focused on his undramatic, slow-motion act, elated by both the feeling of standing up for his beliefs and the aesthetics of its execution.
The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
And, within the latter, reason was granted the right to examine and explain the credentials of revelation.
Reformed Dogmatics — Herman Bavinck
In Melanchthon’s Tractatus de Postestate et Primatu papae (1537), which was included along with the Schmalkaldic Articles in the Book of Concord, there is no hint of eschatological expectations, and the idea of the Endechrist is carefully but noticeably demythologized.
The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications — Heiko A. Oberman
Then imagine instead of the black or gray or chestnut back of the horse the soft roughness of golden fur, and the main flying back in the wind.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis
“What is ‘peace’?” she asked.
Perelandra — C. S. Lewis
‘It is now many years ago,’ said Glóin, ‘that a shadow of disquiet fell upon our people.’
The Fellowship of the Ring — J. R. R. Tolkien
Meanwhile the company had relaxed into a hollow but praiseworthy imitation of a pleasure gathering.
Christmas by Injunction — O. Henry
Away then with such subtleties!
Institutes of the Christian Religion — John Calvin
The year 1554 opened with stalemate in Geneva.
Calvin — Bruce Gordon
The Gnostics were profoundly influenced by the dualistic conception of the Greeks, in which matter as inherently evil is represented as utterly opposed to spirit; and by a mystic tendency to regard earthly things as allegorical representations of great cosmic redeeming processes.
Systematic Theology — Louis Berkhof
I came to Carthage and all around me hissed a cauldron of illicit loves.
Confessions — Augustine
“You have a quarrel on hand, I see,” said I, “with some of the algebraists of Paris; but proceed.”
The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allen Poe
Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence:
Pilgrim’s Progress — John Bunyan
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
This alternate sucession of appetites, adversions hopes, and fears is no less in other living creatures than in man, and therefore beasts also deliberate.
Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
Then she suddenly smiled.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone — J. K. Rowling
But with Isaiah it is different. His whole point of view is theocentric, emphasizing that Israel lives for the sake of Jehovah, and possibly the berith-idea with its strongly stressed mutualness did not appear to him peculiarly adapted for bringing this God-centered characteristic of religion to the front.
Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments — Geerhardus Vos
An example of this was given: If a king thanks his servants, they value it greatly, but if he makes it known throughout his realm, then is its value greatly increased.
Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
In which regard there is no difference between the murdering of an innocent man and the executing of an offender; but as they are under a moral consideration, their ends follow their deservings, in respect of conformity to the rule, and so there is χάσμα μέγα between them.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ — John Owen
A self-evident proposition, though always self-evident in itself, is sometimes self-evident to us and sometimes not.
Summa Theologiae — Thomas Aquinas
There was an immediate shortage of beer,
Drinking with Calvin and Luther — Jim West
And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open ye
Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
Humour and irony in the service of theology? Can a Protestant do that?
Beyond the Limitations of Chick Lit — Carl Trueman
