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Why should we trust sociology to tell us the reliable truth any more than any other human social institution or tradition? On what grounds is sociology uniquely immune from the debunking powers of its own method?
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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“And S. Gregory says:—“Our life is like a man in a ship; sit he, stand he, sleep he, wake he, ever he gets thitherward where the ship is driving with the force of the weather. So we, in this short time, whatsoever we do, we drive ever to our end.” And our enemy”
― The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
― The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
“Macarius said also, ‘If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.”
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
“Also, we ought to work in this time of grace; for we are GOD’S bought thralls, with the price of His dear-worthy Blood, to work in His vine-yard: and yet He doth promise us reward, if we do with good-will that which, as a debt, we ought to do.”
― The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
― The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
“أجمل الأنهار لم نرها بعد .. أجمل الكتب لم نقرأها بعد ..أجمل أيام حياتنا لم تأتٍ بعد”
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