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“People long for God, and more of them than we might think are willing to accept the idea that getting close to him might be painful. The church needs to worry less about coddling our superficial tastes and impulses and more about giving us the whole truth.”
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
“The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don’t make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction” of their children’s lives.”
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
“Put another way, if you don’t educate your children for metaphysical truth and moral virtue, mainstream culture will do it for you. Absent shared commitment to these spiritual and moral verities, it is hard to see how we renew our families, our communities, and our country with an ethic of duty, self-restraint, stewardship, and putting the needs of people, not the state or corporations, first.”
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
“HOW TO REFUSE DEFEAT Life is fragile and uncertain. Sooner or later, you will experience a great loss in life, when suffering reveals that the world is not the place you think it is, and that your dreams will not come true after all. What then? Don’t blame others for what happened to you, even if it might well be their fault. This is a dead end. And don’t settle for stoic acceptance of your fate. Merely bearing up under strain is noble, but it’s wasting an opportunity for transformation. You have the power to turn your burden into a blessing. What if this pain, this heartbreak, this failure, was given to you to help you find your true self? Make adversity work for you by launching a quest inside your own heart. Find the dragons hiding there, slay them, and bring back the treasure that will help you live well.”
― How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
― How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
“if one’s religion is to mean anything, if it is to last, it has to stand outside of time and place. Its truths have to be transcendent. And though we moderns have to find a way to make the tradition livable in our own situations, we must never forget that we don’t judge the religion; the religion judges us. To be blunt, a god that is no bigger than our own desires is not God at all, but a divinized rationalization for self-worship.”
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
― Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
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