Nathan Long

“Money is the most important good in any developed economy because it acts as the foundation for all trade and savings. Gold, the ancient and venerable precious metal, had served this role for millennia, but its physicality was an Achilles’ heel that made it vulnerable to centralization, confiscation, and state attack. Gold’s status as global money was eventually repealed during the twentieth century as the state came to dominate the issuance and management of money.”
― Vijay Boyapati, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

“Let’s look at a passage from Atomic Habits, by James Clear: “Imagine two people resisting a cigarette. When offered a smoke, the first person says, “No thanks. I’m trying to quit.” It sounds like a reasonable response, but this person still believes they are a smoker who is trying to be something else. They are hoping their behavior will change while carrying around the same beliefs. The second person declines by saying, “No thanks. I’m not a smoker.” It’s a small difference, but this statement signals a shift in identity. Smoking was part of their former life, not their current one. They no longer identify as someone who smokes.”
― Luke Tatum, Between the Lies: How to Reclaim Your Future from the Banks and Wall Street

“God delights in the obedient human response to a divine calling. It is His good pleasure to honor the willing heart, lauding obedience, even glorifying an earthen vessel by infusing it with all-surpassing power.”
― David Joannes, The Space Between Memories: Recollections from a 21st Century Missionary

“One of the chief values of old literature lies in its ability to challenge some of the assumptions that we take for granted as self-evidently correct, but which are actually culturally situated, and will one day seem strange to future generations.”
― Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: His Life and Thought