I prayed and God started the airplane motors. This is prayer, this is what it is supposed to be. —Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City (1969) Thus, Christian faith is a religion primarily of submission, not of stimulation. —James Jordan, Judges...
Editor’s Note: As many readers originally noted how they enjoyed this article, we are reposting this piece from 2011. Let us never forget the true meaning of the season. Have a very merry Christmas! He comes to make His blessings known/Far...
…Conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary…. —The Apostles’ Creed (6th Century) With War at Hand Israel and Syria had been at each other’s throats for decades. But when a powerful and aggressive empire rose to the north, they put aside...
In a moment of irritation I insisted that the historic Jezebel was not particularly wicked and was, if anything, a good wife. —Elijah Baley in Isaac Asimov’s Caves of Steel (1954) She was a powerful, complex woman whose courage and dignity even...
The idol state uses the language of compassion because its intention is a messianic one. It finds the masses harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd, needing a savior. —Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction (1983) …Man’s nature...
Somewhere in the fifty years just past is where historians of the future will place an arbitrary line and say: “This marks the Fall of the Galactic Empire.” —Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951) Social commentators, historians, and philosophers are...
Virtually every time in the Bible that God gives a promise or a kingdom to someone, the first thing he does is ruin the promise by sinning against God. —James B. Jordan, Biblical Horizons Would You Vote for This Man? He was beloved of God. He was...
…devout thanksgiving…penitent confession of our sins, and humble supplication for pardon, through the merits of our Savior. Thanksgiving Proclamation (1778) …to cause virtue and true religion to flourish, to give to all nations amity, peace and...
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. —Euripides, c. 430 BC Sooner or later everyone has to decide which gang they belong to. —Pratchett and Gaiman, Good Omens (1990) To Be a Man When David was nearing the end of his life, he gave his...
We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws… And there is no health in us. —The Book of Common Prayer (1552) Where the heart is changed, the life and actions will be changed too...
Our choices seem to be between a man who hopes to be a god and one who thinks he already is one. —Pastoral prayer, November 3rd 2012 …To withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration...
…A guilty man is less independent and less confident in making a stand in terms of his rightful authority and responsibility. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Foundations of Social Order (1972) Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. —William...
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