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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.
“(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
“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
“in America you can be a success as a pastor and a failure as an apprentice of Jesus; you can gain a church and lose your soul.”
― 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
“C.S. Lewis, once said, "The main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark, prison we are all born in" and warned of the danger of, "coming to love the prison.”
― 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
“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
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