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“There were dozens of great religious leaders who were contemporaries of Martin Luther, as well as hundreds before and after. But he alone fit the bill as the great Reformer. Sure, the times were right. Sure, someone else would have come along. But no one else had the intellect and personality to carry it out, with its three most critical components: biblical teachings and translation; daring disputations on wide-ranging church traditions; and, most scandalous of all, clerical marriage demonstrated by his own public marriage to Katharina von Bora.”
― Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora
― Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora
“Regarding Isaiah, it would not be much of an exaggeration to say that his book is the Old Testament prophetic canvas upon which the colors of the New Testament are painted. By one estimate, all but three of the sixty-six chapters of Isaiah are quoted, alluded to, or echoed in the NT. Isaiah’s writings loom so large in New Testament books because of how this prophet foretells, in poetically striking ways, the dawn of the kingdom of God that comes when the Savior is born. Writing in the 700s BC, Isaiah speaks of the virgin birth of the Messiah, that he is the Servant of the Lord, the promised Son of David, the bringer of new creation, and the innocent victim who is put to death for the sins of humanity (see especially Isaiah 53). If we lost all other biblical books, but retained Isaiah, we would still have enough material to teach and preach for a lifetime about the Son of God and his work for us. Isaiah prophesied to his own generation, but he wrote in such a way that, whenever his readers might live, they sense that he is directly addressing them. In addition, Isaiah is rightly ranked among some of the loftiest, most beautiful poetry ever composed in any language.”
― Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament
― Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament
“The forms and rites of Christmas Day are meant merely to give the last push to people who are afraid to be festive. Father Christmas exists to haul us out of bed and make us partake of meals too beautiful to be called breakfasts. He exists to fling us out of the bathing-machine into the heady happiness of the sea.”
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
― Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton
“The theory of the unmorality of art has established itself firmly in the strictly artistic classes. They are free to produce anything they like. They are free to write a "Paradise Lost" in which Satan shall conquer God. They are free to write a "Divine Comedy" in which heaven shall be under the floor of hell. And what have they done? Have they produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic, by the rigid Puritan schoolmaster? We know that they have produced only a few roundels. Milton does not merely beat them at his piety, he beats them at their own irreverence. In all their little books of verse you will not find a finer defiance of God than Satan's. Nor will you find the grandeur of paganism felt as that fiery Christian felt it who described Faranata lifting his head as in disdain of hell. And the reason is very obvious. Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
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