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""The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger... And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them."" — Mar 11, 2026 08:44AM
""The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger... And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them."" — Mar 11, 2026 08:44AM
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“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Envy and hatred try to pierce our neighbor with a sword, when the blade cannot reach him unless it first passes through our own body.”
― The Seven Storey Mountain
― The Seven Storey Mountain
“No, the problem in the church is not strong women, but rather weak men who feel threatened by strong women, and have tried various means, even by dubious exegesis, to prohibit them from exercising their gifts and graces in the church.”
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
“It might seem that the person who can feel for others is doomed in life. Isn’t one person’s pain enough? Why must a person like Tress feel for two, or more? Yet I’ve found that the people who are the happiest are the ones who learn best how to feel. It takes practice, you know. Effort. And those who (late in life) have been feeling for two, three, or a thousand different people…well, turns out they’ve had a leg up on everyone else all along. Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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