Beautiful without doubt is the world, excelling, as well in its magnitude as in the arrangement of its parts, both those in the oblique circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical form. Yet it is not this, but its Artificer, that we must worship. For when any of your subjects come … Continue reading Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument
Francis Schaeffer: If we demand, in any of our relationships, either perfection or nothing, we will get nothing
Knowing that all men are sinners frees us from the cruelty of utopianism. Utopianism is cruel, for it expects of expects of men and women what they are not and will not be until Christ comes. Such utopianism, forgetting what the Bible says about human sinfulness, is hard-hearted; it is as monstrous a thing as … Continue reading Francis Schaeffer: If we demand, in any of our relationships, either perfection or nothing, we will get nothing
G.K. Chesterton: The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason….Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
Francis Schaeffer: Our attitude toward all men should be that of equality because we are common creatures.
Our attitude toward all men should be that of equality because we are common creatures. We are of one blood and kind.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: “Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification…”
Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.