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“Perhaps I wished for something rather than nothing--a smack of passion to make me believe I was really there for him, not missing. And then the blow rises up from imaginary depths. When there is nothing, the phantoms come up to fill the emptiness. It is not true that nothing comes of nothing. There is always something.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
“And so a population that has been wholly propagandized by a totalitarian state, and demoralized by hedonistic consumerism, will hardly be in a position even to imagine opposition to its command-and-control strategies.”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
“The truth has power to end every tyranny.....They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do. You don't have to be a grizzled Cod Warrior to see that a notion of progress that depends on labor camps, police informers, and making everybody equally poor to achieve justice and equality is phony.”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
“We may not be able to communicate that meaning to a world gone insane, but as Orwell knew, simply by staying sane when everyone else is mad, we may hope to convey the human heritage.”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
“Accepting suffering is the beginning of our liberation...Suffering can be the source of great strength. It gives us the power to resist. It is a gift from God that invites us to change. To start a revolution against the oppression. But for me, the oppressor was no longer the totalitarian communist regime. It's not even the progressive liberal state. Meeting these hidden heroes started a revolution against the greatest totalitarian ruler of all: myself." We ourselves are the ultimate rulers of our consciences. Hard totalitarianism depends on terrorizing us into surrendering our free consciences; soft totalitarianism uses fear as well, but mostly it bewitches us with therapeutic promises of entertainment, pleasure, and comfort...”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
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Lori’s 2025 Year in Books
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