Nicholas

“Modern evangelicalism is just that-modern-in love with modernity, in love with individualism, egalitarianism, and perfect boxes. Like other moderns, evangelicals have no love of beauty; it is at most optional and indifferent, not the rhythm of life.”
― Douglas M. Jones III, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

“Malthus wrote: All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the deaths of grown persons . . . Therefore . . . we should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality; and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel nature to use. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country, we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations. But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and restrain those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders.2”
― Dr. George Grant, Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger

“The church is the heart of the world, and the liturgy of Word and Sacrament is the heart of the church. Which means the central cultural and political work of the church is to hear and do the word of the Lord and to eat, drink, sing, and rejoice at His table. Every other “agenda,” no matter how thought-out, well-funded, cunningly implemented, will fall short, because every other agenda fails to put first things first.”
― Peter J. Leithart, The Kingdom and the Power: Rediscovering the Centrality of the Church

“Orthodox Christians must stop thinking of ourselves as the temporarily exiled rulers of America who can be restored to power if only an election or two would go our way. We must start accepting the truth that, sociologically speaking, we are a minority subculture. If this accurately describes the current state of American Christianity, the task before the church is not to “take back the levers of power,” but rather to convert a pagan world.”
― Peter J. Leithart, The Kingdom and the Power: Rediscovering the Centrality of the Church