February 2010
14 posts
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“Of course the greatest power that Sara possessed and the one which gained her...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess p52
January 2010
57 posts
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly...”
– Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, quoting Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (wikiquote)
“Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It...”
– Dorothy Sayers, Why Work?
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“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and - conversely - if...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence p24
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“Faith alone is certainty. Everything but faith is subject to doubt. Jesus Christ...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics p141
“The most famous and influential statement of the rights of man … defines...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p27
“Medieval society was held together by a complex network of reciprocal rights and...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p26
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“Reading develops the taste buds of the mind as children learn to savor what is...”
– Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart p21
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“[T]ragically, we can live our whole lives inhibited and poverty-stricken in...”
– Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart p20
“I declare I think you [William Wilberforce] are serving God by being yourself...”
– Hannah More, friend and patron of William Wilberforce quoted by John Piper in Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals and the Political Welfare
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“… if one regards it as the primary purpose of mission to increase the...”
– Lesslie Newbigin Signs Amid the Rubble p91
“Being himself amused and interested by everything, whatever [William...”
– John Piper Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals and the Political Welfare
“Richard Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, wrote after a meeting with [William]...”
– John Piper Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals and the Political Welfare
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“The right word in the right place is a magnificent gift. Somehow a limited,...”
– Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart p18
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“Every child ought to know the pleasure of words so well chosen that they awaken...”
– Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart p18
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“This is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we...”
– Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart p17
“You may have tangible wealth untold,
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold;...”
– S. Gilliland (found in Honey for a Child’s Heart)
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“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. p41
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“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
– William B. Yeats
“Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something, but it’s the...”
– Chip & Dan Heath, Made to Stick p213
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“So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“If today I lived in a … country where certain principles dear to the...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere… Whatever affects one...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“When the miser prefers his gold to justice, it is through no fault of the gold,...”
– Augustine, City of God p510
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“The greatest mercies and blessings that in this world we are made partakers of,...”
– John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation p352
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“But the point is that [political and social transformation] is not our goal,...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Signs Amid the Rubble p55
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“Only when every individual in a community shoulders the burden of maintaining...”
– Noel Bouche, Exploited: Sex Trafficking, Porn Culture, and the Call to a Lifestyle of Justice p10
“[C.S. Lewis] could make you understand that classicism and medievalism were...”
– Kenneth Tynan, quoted in In Search of C.S. Lewis, cited in C.S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to His Life and Works
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“A boy is only sent to be taught at school when it is too late to teach him...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy p288
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“Moral imperatives cannot operate merely as useful props for a profitable...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p112
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“A preaching of the gospel that calls men and women to accept Jesus as Savior but...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p132
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“No state can be completely secular in the sense that those who exercise power...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p132
“Rome, the mistress of state-craft, and beyond all other nations in the politic...”
– W.E. Gladstone, The State in its Relation to the Church, quoted in Foolishness to the Greeks p20
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“Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only...”
– Leo Tolstoy, quoted in Entrepreneurs of Life p17
“Is there any knowledge of God that is not at the same time the doing of...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret p135
“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle p154
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“The fatal habit of considering Christian morals as distinct from Christian...”
– William Wilberforce, A Practical View of Christianity, quoted by John Piper
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“If … a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should …...”
– William Wilberforce, quoted by John Piper
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“The myth of the ‘invisible hand’ that ensures that the untrammeled...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p121
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A pointed question to Jim Wallis
On Wednesday, I went to hear Jim Wallis speak and participate in a panel on Rediscovering Values as the course for change in the new economy. He cited numerous clues that our economic crisis is indicative of a larger moral crisis, and called for a recovery of “old virtues.” He contended that asking the right questions is essential to understand and learn from the crisis.
After the...
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“Every proposal for human unity that does not specify the center around which...”
– Lesslie Newbigin Foolishness to the Greeks p123
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“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own...”
– Augustine City of God p698
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“Thus love creates order first in the family and among neighbors and then, by...”
– Lesslie Newbigin Foolishness to the Greeks p104
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“It was at that time also that the proconsul Cn. Manlius, after subduing the...”
– Augustine, City of God
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“The church exists by mission the way fire exists by burning. Where there is no...”
– Emil Brunner
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“… Increased production has become an end in itself; products are designed...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p114