Quotes about Intrigue

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

The time when Christ was 33, so I could see if he really got up from the grave. Or maybe I'd go back to the time of Cleopatra, before Marc Antony got tight with her. I'd try to hit on her first.

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing nature through window from across the room. But by taking in more lengthy passages of Scripture, we are like someone who, intrigue, gets right next to the window to take in more of the view that it offers, basking in more of the arc of the whole the whole narrative.

So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”

But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.

And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

Meanwhile, Gaal son of Ebed came with his brothers and crossed into Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem put their confidence in him.