Category: Commonplace_1
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An Odd Credo (Douglas Wilson)
http://dougwils.com/s16-theology/an-odd-credo.html I believe that God is God, and that we are not. I believe that Jesus is our Savior, and that we are not. I believe that the Holy Spirit is our wisdom, and that we are not. I believe that Jesus died under the wrath of God for our sin, and that He was…
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Malcolm Muggeridge: “The depravity of man…most empirically verifiable reality…”
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time most intellectually resisted fact”. Malcolm Muggeridge
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Voltaire: “I don’t believe in God, but I hope my valet does so he doesn’t steal my spoons.”
“I don’t believe in God, but I hope my valet does so he doesn’t steal my spoons.”
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Rosenstock-Huess: “By falling in love…one’s eyes are opened…”
“By his falling in love, one’s eyes are opened. He can read the riddles, he can decipher the flowers and the stars.” -Rosenstock-Huess
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John Wesley: “…I felt my heart strangely warmed…”
May 24, 1738 In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while the leader was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely…
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Christian Wiman: “‘The task is not to “believe” in a life beyond this one; the task is to perceive it. …”
‘The task is not to “believe” in a life beyond this one; the task is to perceive it. Perception is not projection: We are not meant to project our experience of this life into another, nor are we meant to imag- ine, by means of the details of this life (which is the only…
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Bruce Charlton: “…continuous revelation…to sustain scripture, reason, tradition…”
[I’ve stolen the entire post.] “This assertion is based on my experience, as well as my understanding of history. In my brief time as a Christian I have tried – at times – to give my allegiance to a bottom line – whether scripture, reason, tradition etc – and found it almost immediately impossible. It…
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Hazlitt: on Government Credit, from “Economics”
[Bold is mine.] But there is a decisive difference between the loans supplied by private lenders and the loans supplied by a government agency. Each private tender risks his own funds. (A banker, it is true, risks the funds of others that have been entrusted to him; but if money is lost he must…
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Jürgen Habermas: “…and the Christian ethic of love…everything else is idle postmodern talk”
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic…