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 [...]
Tag 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
Where the battle rages
9 October, 2008 – 6:01 PM
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not professing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier [...]
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 [...]
Too cool or not too cool? That is the question.
26 April, 2008 – 9:13 AM
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern* world than are faithful to Christ, we have [...]
Making history
24 February, 2008 – 10:13 AM
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements LeadershipQuotes
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 [...]
Skinning a cat and the existence of God
16 July, 2007 – 7:43 AM
In his 1908 masterpiece Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton explored the phenomenon of theologians who deny the reality of sin. The strongest saints and the strongest skeptics alike took positive evil as the starting point of their argument,”Chesterton wrote.” If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness skinning a [...]
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 [...]
