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It couldn’t have existed, however, without McPhee’s willingness to put everything else on hold, and just lie on his back, gazing upward toward the sky, thinking hard about how to create something wonderful.
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“When we look only inward, we are likely to think that we are just as sinful as ever. We are tempted to believe that our sin defines us most deeply. But when we look to Christ, we see the one to whom we are united and our new identity in him.”
Jared Mellinger, Think Again: Relief from the Burden of Introspection

William Gouge
“How is the lack of prosperity a blessing to the righteous? God, in wisdom knowing what is best for them, accordingly deals with them by giving prosperity to them so far as He sees it will turn to their good, and denies it to them so far as He sees it will turn to their hurt. Whenever therefore God gives any temporal blessing to His saints, it is a sign of His favor, and whenever He denies any, the very denial is also a fruit of His favor.”
William Gouge, A Holy Vision for Family Life

George Whitefield
“It is a great mistake that some run into, to suppose that religion consists only in saying our prayers. I think...he only will adorn the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in all things, who is careful to perform all the civil offices of life...with a single eye to God's glory...This is the morality I preach.”
George Whitefield

Lynn Painter
“He basically mansplained to me that our kids love us even when they act like little assholes, and then he informed me they’re going to grow out of it and take it all back once they stop being stupid.”
Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

Rod Dreher
“One of contemporary progressivism’s commonly used phrases—the personal is political—captures the totalitarian spirit, which seeks to infuse all aspects of life with political consciousness. Indeed, the Left pushes its ideology ever deeper into the personal realm, leaving fewer and fewer areas of daily life uncontested. This, warned Arendt, is a sign that a society is ripening for totalitarianism, because that is what totalitarianism essentially is: the politicization of everything.”
Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

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