“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share
“t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“The king who could get so drunk with his brother-in-law was also the king who was anxious for an inclusive church and an inclusive… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“If you think of the King James Bible as the greatest creation of seventeenth-century England,” — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the service of… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to the word… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“language in other words which submits to its audience, rather than instructing, informing, moving, challenging and even entertaining them, is no longer a language… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
![“t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.” quote by Adam Nicolson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6dd/adam-nicolson-40537_bible_t-s-king-james-bible-subject-is-majesty_1574720.jpg)
