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“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
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“By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..”
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“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”
― The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
― The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”
― The Cost of Discipleship
― The Cost of Discipleship
“Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual’s life have emanated from the family and local community and the church. Within such groups have been engendered the primary types of identification: affection, friendship, prestige, recognition. And within them also have been engendered or intensified the principal incentives of work, love, prayer, and devotion to freedom and order.”
― The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
― The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
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Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism
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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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