Quotes about Peculiarity

The peculiarity of the Christian religion as has been so often shown and acknowledged even by opponents, lies in the person of Christ.

The cross is the grand peculiarity of the Christian religion. Other religions have laws and moral precepts, forms and ceremonies, rewards and punishments. But other religions cannot tell us of a dying Savior. They cannot show us the cross. This is the crown and glory of the gospel. This is that special comfort that belongs to it alone.

Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

People who were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, that's who. Cats with a serious marble deficiency.

She was keeping it in a cedar box with some other penises she'd stolen; she was feeding them on grains of wheat. That's the usual method of tending penises.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

We are all special cases.