It is anachronistic to assume that doctrinal matters were epiphenomenal in premodern Christendom, and it would be too cynical to say that such matters were a ruse for the real (i.e., sociopsychological, economic, political) reasons for
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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ”
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“You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?”
― John Dies at the End
― John Dies at the End
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
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