Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
The man who can fully understand the word covenant is a theologian. That is the key of all theology—the covenant of works by which we fell, and the covenant of grace by which we stand, Christ fulfilli...
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.