The god of whom no dogmas are believed is a mere shadow. He will not produce that fear of the Lord in which wisdom begins and therefore will not produce that love in which it is consumated…. There is in the minimal religion nothing that can convince, convert, or (in the higher sense) console; nothing [...]
Category Archives: Quotes
Give up
16 November, 2008 – 7:16 PM
Here’s a quote that sums out the journey of the last few years, or maybe my whole life. Somehow running into a brick wall this time last year has set me free to discover it’s truth. From CS Lewis. . . of course. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your [...]
Good writers
13 November, 2008 – 8:54 AM
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. Friedrich Nietzche
Why the substance of faith matters
25 October, 2008 – 1:42 PM
In an age of skepticism, cynicism, and false “freedoms,” Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was a passionate and occasionally scathing voice of reason. Like her friends C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Charles Williams, Sayers was a brilliant Christian thinker, an Anglo-Catholic who took doctrine seriously and bristled at the growth of “fads, schisms, heresies, and anti-Christ” within [...]
Wesley’s covenant prayer
19 October, 2008 – 10:53 AM
Some Wesleyan friends introduced me to John Wesely’s Covenant Prayer. I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for you or laid aside for you, exalted for you or brought low [...]
Saving the world from itself
7 September, 2008 – 9:51 PM
The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the [...]
CS Lewis remembers
25 May, 2008 – 7:31 PM
In this autobiography of his childhood, CS Lewis recounts the process of his own conversion as a young professor at Oxford in the late 1920s. You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of [...]
First things
20 August, 2007 – 9:40 PM
Every preference of a small good to a great, or a partial good to a total good, involves the loss for the small or partial good for which the sacrifice was made. Apparently the world is made that way. If Esau really got the pottage in return for his birthright, then Esau was a lucky [...]
The hidden Jesus
14 May, 2007 – 7:26 AM
The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears. He never concealed His tears; He showed them plainly on His open face at [...]
A mighty fortress is our church
11 April, 2007 – 10:28 PM
Here’s a gem from Jacques Ellul via Alan Hirsch. No doubt some will reply that God is not a God of disorder, incoherence, or arbitrariness, but a God of order. Of course he is. Unfortunately the whole of the Old Testament shows us that God’s order is not that which we conceive and desire. God’s [...]
