Sentences
As I am reading, I occasionally come across a sentence that resonates in a way which makes me wish I had retained more of my college physics to allow me to come up with a good analogy. Some sentences are notable for vivid imagery or rhythmic intensity; others just say something simple. Here are a handful of sentences seen online that just stood out.
"I think maybe I will tell them again soon that the plaster layers were sloughing off like skin on an overcooked chicken during the last rain event." —James McCoy
"If we are to be people who survive all of the distraction, if we are to be people of virtue who control our technologies instead of being controlled by them, if we are to be people who live lives that rise above the beep, we will need to examine the ways in which our technologies distract us, in which they tell us what is most important at any given moment." —Tim Challies
"Does God care about baby shrimp?" — Russell Moore
"There was something so satisfying about sucking up spilled cereal and watching it disappear into the canister." —Rachel Meeks
"I use the term ’third way’ to signal to my postmodern readers that what I’m about to share is very right." —Mike Wittmer
Do you have any great sentences to share?
Comment from Matt P. on May 12, 2010 at 8:37 PM CDT
"Because he <i>is</i>,--that is, an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting, self-sufficient, all-sufficient Being, the fountain, cause, and author of life and being to all things, and of all that is good in every kind, the first cause, last end, and absolutely sovereign Lord of all, the rest and all-satisfactory reward of all other beings,--therefore is he by us to be adored and worshipped with divine and religious worship." --John Owen, Discourse on the Holy Spirit (Book I, Chap. III)
Comment from Jennifer Ekstrand on May 12, 2010 at 9:31 PM CDT
Ooh, that is a great sentence. Thanks for sharing, Matt!
Comment from Matt P. on May 23, 2010 at 9:07 AM CDT
Lord, it is not life to live if Thy presence Thou deny; Lord, if Thou Thy presence give, 'tis no longer death to die[.]
-Toplady
Comment from Jennifer Ekstrand on May 28, 2010 at 7:38 AM CDT
Thanks again Matt. :-) I've not heard that hymn before.
Comment from Matt P. on July 23, 2010 at 7:13 AM CDT
Here I lay in a delicious reverie for some time; during which all lovely forms, and colours, and sounds seemed to use my brain as a common hall, where they could come and go, unbidden and unexcused.
I had a voice, and I had a true sense of sound; but when I tried to sing, the one would not content the other, and so I remained silent.
-George MacDonald, Phantastes
Comment from Jennifer Ekstrand on July 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM CDT
Ooh, I like that "delicious reverie."
Comment from Sarah on October 12, 2010 at 8:04 PM CDT
How could anyone dare to suggest or say that working at the huge task of making a home and carrying on through years and years of ups and downs is not one of the very few truly worthwhile ways to spend our energies and gifts in human life?
Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For The Family's Sake
Comment from Jennifer Ekstrand on October 18, 2010 at 8:17 AM CDT
The tone on that one is quite clear :-)