Philip Quense

“In contrast to this vision, when President Abraham Lincoln was asked if he was confident that God was on his side, he famously replied, “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side, my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
― Noelle Mering, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

“Parents have a natural and fitting authority over their children. Their authority is of both types: a reflection of a commission from above and their possession of superior knowledge to impart to their offspring. They have a knowledge not just about the world around them but also about the particular needs of their children. This is knowledge gained from the intimacy of family life that a neighbor down the street does not have. They are bound by the bonds of their relationship to be intimately invested in the good of their offspring. But it is this intimacy and obligation that makes the abuse of the parental role so devastating. But its abuse”
― Noelle Mering, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

“place to hang our hats. At some point, each person is startled to see his father as an ordinary and flawed human. As a deeply symbolic role meant to point the child to the authority and love of God, the revelation of a father’s less-than-perfect humanity can be placed into the proper context of a fallen nature shared by all of humanity. Such a context points us to the supreme need for a loving God. Devoid of this context, the revelation of a formerly revered father’s failures can be catastrophic. The distrust and cynicism that can follow a father’s fall from grace can too easily spread to a distrust and cynicism of all authority, and even of law itself.”
― Noelle Mering, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology