Zitat des Tages über Lauwarm / Lukewarm:
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.
Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.
