It is remarkable how we go on. All that we come to know and witness and endure, yet our hearts keep beating, our faith persists.
“He found himself wishing he could go back and start again and do everything differently. But time was the worst thing; time, it seemed to him now, was the only thing you couldn't change; whatever you did, it kept coming.”
― Clear
― Clear
“First, the panic had struck a death blow at his presidency. Now the slavery debate was turning acrimonious, making normal politics impossible.”
― Martin Van Buren
― Martin Van Buren
“Memorably, he said, “I had rather have live vermin on my back than the tongue of one of these Washington women on my reputation.”
― Martin Van Buren
― Martin Van Buren
“I do believe that this age, while bearing so many analogies to those that have passed represents a uniquely challenging time because of the coincidence of plastic people and a liquid world.”
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“At a very practical level, the way Protestantism has often failed to reflect the historical concerns of the church in its liturgy and practice, most obviously in the mega church movement and the manner in which it has frequently adopted the aesthetics of the present moment in its worship is arguably a sign of the penetration of the anticulture into the sanctuary of historic Christianity. Christians today are not opponents of the anticulture. Too often we are the symptoms of it.”
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