Colin Cloutus

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“Sedition comes from hell, and should be driven back to its accursed habitation, to roar in chains and penal fire. The monster newly born is easily quelled, but when the enormous shape grows fierce and conscious of its own strength, then whole nations perish in its jaws, or gro[a]n beneath its feet.”
John Cameron, The Messiah. In Nine Books. By John Cameron

George MacDonald
“As we must not judge of the life of the nation by it's kings and mighty men, so we must not judge the life of the Church by those who are called Rabbi. [...] In the Church, as in society, we often find that that which shows itself uppermost is hut the froth, a sign, it may be, of life beneath, but in itself worthless.”
George MacDonald, England's Antiphon

“A man cannot, I think, be both an historian and a gentleman. It is an essential part of the character of a gentleman that he should dislike prying into other people's secrets. The business of the historian, on the other hand, is to rake about if necessary through dust-bins, until he finds out the reasons, generally disreputable, why things are done. A gentleman displays a dignified superiority to the vice of curiosity. For the historian curiosity is a virtue.”
George A. Birmingham

Leo Tolstoy
“Man is a weak and miserable animal until the light of God burns in his soul.”
Leo Tolstoy, On Life and Essays on Religion

Neil Postman
“To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing lots of things, not knowing *about* them. Thus to the reverent question posed by Morse - What hath God wrought? - a disturbing answer came back: a neighbourhood of strangers and pointless quantity; a world of fragments and discontinuities.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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1,945 books | 26 friends

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54 books | 6 friends

Lewis
63 books | 1 friend

Adam
167 books | 4 friends

Jed
Jed
1,170 books | 7 friends

Chris Dech
496 books | 77 friends

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562 books | 6 friends

S4ULE
495 books | 5 friends





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