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Mike Wardrop
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The fact of the matter is we all have a faith position, an interpretation of reality that does not have definitive proof.
“As Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, summarised postmodern ethics: “If you made it trend, you make it true.”
― Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
― Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
“(the joy of the church at every baptism, every bread breaking) is like an ever-increasing intimacy with a close friend, family member, or spouse.”
― Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World
― Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World
“Here is a simple but profound rule: If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.”
― How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
― How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites [read: flesh]... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
Because freedom without self-mastery is a disaster waiting to happen. Saint Augustine said it well: "Free choice is sufficient for evil, but hardly for good.”
― Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites [read: flesh]... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
Because freedom without self-mastery is a disaster waiting to happen. Saint Augustine said it well: "Free choice is sufficient for evil, but hardly for good.”
― Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
“Because what you give your attention to is the person you become. Put another way: the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to. That bodes well for those apprentices of Jesus who give the bulk of their attention to him and to all that is good, beautiful, and true in his world. But not for those who give their attention to the 24-7 news cycle of outrage and anxiety and emotion-charged drama or the nonstop feed of celebrity gossip, titillation, and cultural drivel. (As if we “give” it in the first place; much of it is stolen by a clever algorithm out to monetize our precious attention.) But again: we become what we give our attention to, for better or worse.”
― The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
― The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
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