Historians with increasing and distressing frequency are openly admitting that history has no meaning and shows little or no purpose or goals. —C. Gregg Singer, “The Problem of Historical Interpretation” (1976) One has to go back of the “facts”...
Picture this: People gathered together each week for one cause — clapping, singing, worshiping. They donate their hard-earned money, and their time, too, knowing they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Heaven, they believe, surely will be...
The three centuries which followed the Macedonian conquest of Asia, from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. —Peter...
Man is the image of God. He necessarily creates stories and enjoys them. —Greg Uttinger, “The Lord of the Rings: A Good Story” (2012) Deep comedy is a product of Christianity, a mark of resurrection life on the pages of Western literature...
The biblical worldview is not a fairy-tale, or romantic perfectionism, but a realistic appraisal of men with their sins and shortcomings. David Chilton, Productive Christians (1981) The true Romantic always assumes his own innocence. He believes...
Who was that masked man? — The Lone Ranger radio series (1933) They call me Hawkeye. That’s from The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my father ever read. —Dr. Benjamin Pierce, “A Full Rich Day,” M*A*S*H (1974) The First “Hawkeye” D...
Man is made to be in the visible universe an image and likeness of God Himself, and he is placed in it in order to subdue the earth. From the beginning therefore he is called to work. — Pope John Paul II, Laborem Exercens (1981) We know that men...
It then belongs to princes to know how far they may extend their authority, and to subjects in what they may obey them . . . . —Junius Brutus, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) Temporal authority is ministerial or delegated authority...
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” —Obi-Wan Kenobi Freedom and Nature Discussions about liberty have to begin with definitions and of course, include reference points. After all, no one is free to do anything and everything that they want to...
Want. Take. Have. —Faith, “Bad Girls,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999) Come, thou long expected Jesus / Born to set Thy people free. — Charles Wesley, “Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (1744) But what’s the real problem no one is willing to...
Our fathers’ God, to Thee, Author of liberty, to Thee we sing. —Samuel Francis Smith, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” (1831) Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else. . . . —The Declaration of the Rights of Man...
It is unnecessary to point out that all the great religions hold the view that the essence of man and the essence of God are one and the same. —Colin Wilson, The Occult: A History (1971) The dominant tenet of Hebrew thought is the absolute...
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