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“Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.”
― Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future
― Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future
“Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”
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“As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They’re called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here’s a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don’t we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.”
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“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild" and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”
― Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine
― Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine
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