Matthew

“Most people don’t feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.”
― John Piper, Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die

“The Biblical expression ‘In the beginning was the Word’ would not be an accurate description of creation according to Sanskrit-based philosophies. What is more accurate is: In the beginning was the primordial sound that differentiates into multiple root sounds, which manifest further before compounding sound sequences are made possible as words.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Sanskrit Non-Translatables : The Importance of Sanskritizing English

“Not yet born, already John prophesies,” wrote Maximus of Turin, “and while still in the enclosure of his mother’s womb, confesses the coming of Christ with movements of joy.”
― Richard D. Phillips, The Incarnation in the Gospels

“In book 8 of Plato’s Republic, Socrates argues that people are not naturally led to self-governance but rather seek a strong leader to follow. Democracy, by permitting freedom of speech, opens the door for a demagogue to exploit the people’s need for a strongman; the strongman will use this freedom to prey on the people’s resentments and fears. Once the strongman seizes power, he will end democracy, replacing it with tyranny.”
― Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them