tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36177484323463989272024-02-18T23:41:07.561-06:00EleventaryIt isn't ten or twelve. Nor is it three or seven.gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.comBlogger346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-1332301042632709652017-11-01T16:03:00.002-05:002017-11-01T16:06:37.784-05:00My Classical Education Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. <i>Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning</i> by Douglas Wilson<br />
2. <i>An Experiment in Criticism</i> by C.S. Lewis<br />
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3. <i>The Devil Knows Latin</i> by E. Christian Kopff<br />
4. <i>For the Children’s Sake</i> by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay<br />
5. <i>Beauteous Truth </i>by Joseph Pearce<br />
6. <i>The Four Men</i> by Hilaire Belloc<br />
7. <i>The Classical Moment </i>by James Schall<br />
8. <i>The Intellectual Life</i> by A.G. Sertillanges<br />
9.<i> Beauty for Truth’s Sake</i> by Stratford Caldecott<br />
10. <i>How to Read Slowly</i> by James Sire<br />
11. <i>Consider This</i> by Karen Glass</div>
gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-60201053151768390012017-02-10T10:27:00.001-06:002017-02-10T10:27:44.673-06:00The "Solas" of Chalmers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Thinking about the "Five Solas" as we embark on this 500th year of the Reformation, I couldn't help but also think of the reformational way Thomas Chalmers has shaped my thinking about life, grace, mercy, the Scriptures, and the beauty of the faith that the magisterial reformers bequeathed to us. <br /><br />It struck me that like them, Chalmers' influence has also produced a list of "solas." This is my feeble attempt to somehow codify those "solas."<div>
<br />Only the Triune God is truly holy.<br />Only His holiness can offer grace.<br />Only His grace can bring forth faith.<br />Only faith bears the fruit of love.<br />Only love produces hope.<br />Only hope gives way to obedience.<br />Only obedience results in service.<br />Only service manifests mercy.<br />Only mercy makes for justice.<br />Only justice establishes peace.<br />And, only peace can flower into Christian culture.</div>
gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-65211123591045236512016-12-28T07:04:00.002-06:002016-12-28T07:04:17.030-06:00A Thomas Sowell Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />1. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.<br /><br />2. If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.<br /><br />3. Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.<br /><br />4. Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.<br /><br />5. The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.<br /><br />6. The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.<br /><br />7. The real minimum wage is zero.<br /><br />8. What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.<br /><br />9. In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.<br /><br />10. People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.<br /><br />11. Elections should be held on April 16th—the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-36876867566690352912016-12-23T06:54:00.001-06:002016-12-23T06:57:36.023-06:00Bah Humbug: As Far As the Curse Is Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2. Of course, the word is most often associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens in <i>The Christmas Carol.</i> He famously dismissed Christmas declaring, “Bah! Humbug!” Interestingly, variations of the term make appearances in any number of European languages:</div>
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3. <i>Humbug</i> may well be derived from the Old Norse words <i>hum,</i> meaning “night” or “shadow” or “dark air,” and <i>bugges,</i> a variant of <i>bogey,</i> meaning “apparition” or "ghost."<br />
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4. In Icelandic, <i>húm</i> means “twilight.”<br />
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5. In Faeroese, <i>hómi</i> means “unclear.”<br />
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6. <i>Humi</i> in Swedish means “dark suspicion.” This word may well be derived from the Old Swedish verb <i>hymla,</i> still in use, which means “to conceal," "to hide," or "to evade the truth.”<br />
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7. In Old English and Anglo Saxon, <i>hum</i> means “to deceive.” And <i>bugges</i> is a word that appears in Wyclif’s earliest translation of the English Bible meaning “specter.” And that may well be derived from the much older Celtic word <i>bwg,</i> meaning “scarecrow.”<br />
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8. But, it could also be derived from the Early Italian, <i>uomo bugiardo</i>, which literally means “lying man.”<br />
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9. <i>Uim-bog</i> is supposed to mean “soft copper” in Ancient Gaelic—still used in Ireland as slang for “worthless money.”<br />
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10. In other words, “Bah! Humbug!” may very well be an apt declaration for Christmas (much to the chagrin of Scrooge): it is the declaration that Christ has come to expose the fraudulence, the impotence, the bugaboo nonsense of this poor fallen world; but even more, He has come to replace the dark specters, the apparitional hoaxes of sin, the evasions of the truth at the heart of sin.<br />
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11. Thus: He has come to make His blessings flow as far as the curse is found.</div>
gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-12213555231846164462016-07-05T08:19:00.002-05:002016-07-09T20:51:08.128-05:00Chalmers on the Disciplines of Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“O God, may I number my days so as to apply my heart to wisdom. Grant me the guidance of Thy Spirit and the joys of salvation.”<br />
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“Time is short; and as the years revolve over me, may I learn to prize as the truest of all wisdom, the wisdom of the Gospel. I am in Thy hand, O God.”<br />
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“O God, may I grow every day in faith and charity.”<br />
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“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and movements.”<br />
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“The Bible should be the daily exercise of those who have decidedly embarked in the business.”<br />
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“Teach me the act of exacting piety from everything around me. Accept O God, my gratitude for the peacefulness of Thy Sabbaths. Give me light and comfort in prayer. Settle me in the principles of the knowledge of Christ.”<br />
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“May I be strong in faith, instant in prayer, high in my sense of duty, and vigorous in the execution of it.”<br />
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“Let me never cease to pray for the Spirit to make good my sanctification.”<br />
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“My business is to never relax a single sentiment founded on Scripture and to steer myself by the guidance of conviction and the Divine Spirit through all that can oppose itself to the interests of the Gospel.”<br />
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“Help our unbelief, O God; dissolve our hardness; enter into our hearts. May Christ be our all and, under the influence of that which availeth faith working by love, grant that He may be to us power and wisdom and sanctification and complete wisdom.”<br />
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“O God, grant Thy Spirit to work in me the work of faith with power.”<br />
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gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-62230948682271632372016-03-07T13:09:00.001-06:002016-03-07T13:21:52.272-06:00A Jerry Bridges Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been reading Jerry Bridges (1929-2016) for nigh on four decades. Ever since the release of <i>The Pursuit of Holiness</i> by NavPress in 1978, I have eagerly awaited each of his new books. I've never been disappointed. Indeed, he became one of the chief influences on my life.</span></div>
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It was really difficult to choose, but Here is my selection of the best of his best:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Pursuit of Holiness</i> (1978)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Respectable Sins</i> (2007)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Practice of Godliness</i> (1983)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Discipline of Gra</i>ce (1994)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Transforming Grace</i> (1991)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Trusting God</i> (1988)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Growing Your Faith</i> (2004)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Transforming Power of the Gospel</i> (2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Fruitful Life</i> (2006)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Is God Really in Control?</i> (2006)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Gospel for Real Life (2002)</span></div>
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gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-41425781081596028622016-02-20T00:57:00.001-06:002016-02-20T01:01:02.215-06:00An Umberto Eco (Ex Caelis Oblatus) Eleventary <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“There is nothing more wonderful than a list, that instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.” <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection—not an invitation for hypnosis.” <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Only publishers and television people believe that people crave easy experiences." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Translation is the art of failure." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear." Umberto Eco<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed." <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."</span>gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-67606504392666879252016-02-14T21:38:00.002-06:002016-02-20T01:00:10.824-06:00A Justice Scalia Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Day by
day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country
I do not recognize."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The
Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal
reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the
fortune cookie." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"To allow
the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a
select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a
principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no
social transformation without representation." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"A right of
parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the ‘unalienable
Rights’ with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all men are
endowed by their Creator.'" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Persuade
your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. That’s what democracy is
all about. It’s not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too
long, imposing these demands on society."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the
hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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society—the traditional Christian virtues are essential." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal
judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The body
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supporting evolution. In fact, it may be stronger. The evidence for evolution
is far less compelling than we have been led to believe. Evolution is not a
scientific 'fact,' since it cannot actually be observed in a laboratory.
Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or 'guess.' It is a very bad
guess at that. The scientific problems with evolution are so serious that it
could accurately be termed a 'myth.'" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Have the
courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And
have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-56165249891872957912016-01-18T08:01:00.003-06:002016-01-18T08:01:48.215-06:00A Dr. King Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The ultimate measure
of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but
where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Darkness cannot drive
out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can
do that.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Faith is taking the
first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our lives begin to
end the day we become silent about things that matter.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1. “We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”<br />
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2. “There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”<br />
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3. “If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”<br />
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4. “The Gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”<br />
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5. “It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility ‘faith’!”<br />
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6. “Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success”<br />
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7. “There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”<br />
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8. “However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”<br />
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9. “Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking about the "Five Solas of the Reformation," during this Reformation anniversary week, I couldn't help but also think of the reformational way Thomas Chalmers has shaped my thinking about life, grace, mercy, the Scriptures, and the beauty of the faith that the magisterial reformers bequeathed to us. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only the Triune God is truly holy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only His holiness can offer grace.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only His grace can bring forth faith.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only faith bears the fruit of love.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only love produces hope.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only hope gives way to obedience.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only obedience results in service.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only service manifests mercy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only mercy makes for justice.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only justice establishes peace.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, only peace can flower into Christian culture.</span></li>
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<br />gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-18359772667683109142015-06-29T09:21:00.003-05:002015-06-29T09:23:36.610-05:00Symbols of Hate<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, as long as we're banning symbols of intolerance, oppression, and hate, let's not forget the worst offenders of all.</span><br />
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<br />gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-24155348849721882622015-05-06T08:13:00.001-05:002015-05-06T08:13:05.243-05:00Always Something New in London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every year, I take a group of graduating seniors from Franklin Classical School to England. We usually visit London, Cambridge, Ely, Brighton, Chartwell, and Lewes. And of course, there are a host of must-see sights and sites in each of those places. In addition though, I always try to make sure each trip is unique--we try to see something new every time we go. So, this year some of the new things we'll see that we normally don't get a chance to see are:</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />1. St. Helen's, Bishopsgate<br />2. The old Daunt's, Marylebone<br />3. The new Foyle's, Charing Cross<br />4. Huckle the Barber, Shoreditch<br />5. Jamie's pop up Diner, Piccadilly<br />6. Abbey Road Studios<br />7. Barbecoa, St. Paul's<br />8. St. Giles, Tottenham Court<br />9. Persephone, Bloomsbury<br />10. Jo Malone, Covent Garden<br />11. Brill, Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />"Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."<br /><br />“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”<br /><br />“Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.”<br /><br />“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest birds.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />“Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”<br /><br />“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, if Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.”<br /><br /> “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”<br /><br />“The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.”<br /><br />“Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />“For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”</span></div>
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<br />"If it be true that love cast out fear, it is just as true that fear keepeth out love."<br /><br />"Unbelief is an intelligent turning away from the Word of God. It is not rooted in ignorance but in negligence."<br /><br />"At the fall, men were not demoralized out of all virtue, rather we were desecrated of all godliness--and thus in our own flesh, bereft of all enduring good." <br /><br />"There is nought more undeniable than the antipathy of fallen nature to the peculiar doctrines of the Gospel." <br /><br />"The handwriting of ordinances that was against us, and contrary to us, has been taken out of the way, having been nailed to the cross of Christ; but the hand of Jesus, as the Lord our sanctifier, is ever on us: beautifying us with His salvation and spreading over our characters all the graces of holiness."<br /><br />"The sacrament we hold to be not merely a privilege but a means of grace: a privilege to all for whom the Savior is our alone dependence for time and eternity; and a means of grace to all who, humbled at our distance and deficiency from the perfections of the sanctuary above, seek the instituted ordinances below, for the advancement of our meetness for the inheritance. Come--but come with a sincere purpose. Come in honesty. Come aware of the total renovation which your personal Christianity implies. Come free of all those superficial and meagre conceptions of it which are so current in the midst of this infidel world. Come resolved to be and to do all that the Master of our Assembly would have you be and do. Come and look to Him for the perfection of His own work upon your character, that in you He may see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied."<br /><br />"Though no longer under the economy of 'do-and-live,' still, Christians are under the economy of 'live-and-do.'" <br /><br />"Whenever we bethinks ourselves of God having passed over the magnitude of our own provocations; whenever we dwell on the agony of that endurance laid on Christ for sinners; whenever we behold the cross of our atonement and we are solemnized into a reverence for the sacredness of His sacrifice; whenever we look onward to the glories of that inheritance which Christ hath purchased by His blood and the gates of which He hath unbarred for the welcome access of the guiltiest of us all; whenever we look upon Jesus--then it is that we lay hold of our blessed hope, our certain assurance. Therefore beloved, turn your eyes upon Jesus; look full upon His wondrous grace. Oh, consider Jesus." <br /><br />"Let us not be over-sanguine nor over-melancholy of immediate results. Our perspective of time is only slowly synchronized to the clock of providence."<br /><br />"Deliverance from condemnation is not the goal, but the starting post of the Christian race; and so instead of laboring to make good a remote and inaccessible station where forgiveness shall be awarded to him, he is sent forth with a full deed of amnesty in his hand, and lightened of all his fears; he goes forth upon his course rejoicing." <br /><br />"Selectiveness in the decrees of God will not do. Mutilate the truth and you cripple it. Pare it down and you paralyze all its energies. The Spirit is grieved with the duplicity and disingenuousness of men, when they offer to divide God's testimony in accord with their own preferences and devices." gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-25232683765344214042015-03-04T07:38:00.002-06:002015-03-04T07:38:56.293-06:00Essential Political Maxims<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity.” G.K. Chesterton<br /><br />“Almost nothing is as important as almost everything in Washington is made to appear. And the importance of a Washington event is apt to be inversely proportional to the attention it receives.” George Will<br /><br />“Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.” Eugene McCarthy<br /><br />“All politics is actually based on the indifference of the majority.” John Reston<br /><br />“Americans view politics with boredom and detachment. For most of us, politics is increasingly abstract, a spectator sport barely worth watching. Since the average voter “believes that politics will do little to improve his life or that of his community, he votes defensively, if at all.” E. J. Dionne<br /><br />“The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government‑‑lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” Gouvenor Morris<br /><br />“Liberty necessitates the diminutization of political ambition and concern. Liberty necessitates concentration on other matters than mere civil governance. Rather, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, freemen must think on these things.” Patrick Henry<br /><br />“What frustrates many Americans about politics, I think, is that their hard-earned prosperity was supposed to produce widespread decency. It didn’t. And as a result, we’re mad.” James Q. Wilson<br /><br />“Our national temper is sour, our attention span limited, our fuse short. We yearn childishly, for a cowboy in a white hat to ride into town. We are ripe for political disaster.” Simon Schama<br /><br />“The voters think Washington is a whorehouse and every four years they get a chance to elect a new piano player. They would rather burn the whorehouse down.” Peggy Noonan<br /><br />“We are perpetually being told that what is wanted is a strong man who will do things. What is really wanted is a strong man who will undo things; and that will be the real test of strength.” G.K. Chesterton<!--EndFragment-->gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-54013777668547548742015-03-04T07:32:00.003-06:002015-03-04T07:32:48.728-06:00The Tangled Web<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott <br /><br />“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” William Shenstone<br /><br />“A lie which is a half truth is ever the blackest of lies.” Alfred Lord Tennyson<br /><br />“Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.” Thomas Carlyle <br /><br />“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler<br /><br />“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.” William Shakespeare<br /><br />“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.” Samuel Butler <br /><br />The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo da Vinci <br /><br />“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.” Montaigne <br /><br />“Who lies for you will lie against you.” John Locke <br /><br />“There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.” Juvenal<br /> gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-19953272557538142952014-12-10T16:31:00.003-06:002014-12-11T20:57:39.454-06:002014: Best Films<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Only a few of these films are actually new releases this year--they are just new to me. Though I typically don't see very many movies, I try to make sure that the ones I do see really count. These days, that's not a particularly easy task. At any rate, here is my very subjective list of the best of the year, in no particular order:<br /><br />1. <i>The Hundred Foot Journey</i>, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon, and Om Puri<br /><br />2. <i>Still Mine</i>, directed by Michael McGowan, starring James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold<br /><br />3. <i>Haute Cuisine</i>, directed by Christian Vincent, starring Catherine Frot and Jean d'Ormesson (French, English subtitles)<br /><br />4. <i>My Afternoons with Marguerite</i>, directed by Jean Becker, starring Gérard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus, and Sophie Guillemin </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(French, English subtitles)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />5. <i>Hugo</i>, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Chloe Grace Moret, Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Griffiths, and Christopher Lee<br /><br />6. <i>The Book Thief</i>, directed by Brian Percival, starring Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, and Emily Watson<br /><br />7. T<i>he Words</i>, directed by Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman, starring Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, and Dennis Quaid<br /><br />8. <i>Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</i> and <i>The Desolation of Smaug</i>, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis. <br /><br />9. Quiet Bliss, directed by Edoardo Winspeare, starring Celeste Cascara, Laura Licchetta, Anna Boccadamo, and Barbara de Matteis (Italian, English subtitles)<br /><br />10. <i>Skyfall</i>, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, and Javier Bardem<br /><br />11. <i>Chef</i>, directed by Jon Favreau, starring Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman, Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Emjay Anthony, Scarlett Johansson, and Robert Downey, Jr.</span>gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-41939523430564833832014-12-08T09:22:00.000-06:002014-12-08T09:22:01.159-06:002014: Best Non-Fiction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Here is my very subjective list of the best non-fiction books I was able to read in 2014, ranked here in no particular order:<br /><br />1. <i>Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief</i> by John Frame (P&R) This is a massive, magisterial work that sets traditional, orthodox, Reformed systematics within the compass of Frame's triperspectival and trinitarian didactae. It is eloquent and cogent. But, it is also invigoratingly inspirational.<br /><br />2. <i>From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, and Pastoral Perspective</i> edited by David and Jonathan Gibson (Crossway) With contributions from J.I. Packer, Sinclair Ferguson, John Piper, Michael Haykin, Alec Motyer, and a host of other pastors and theologians, this fat collection of essays ably unpacks one of the most difficult questions surrounding Reformed soteriology.<br /><br />3. <i>The Trinitarian Devotion of John Owen</i> by Sinclair Ferguson (Reformation Trust) This latest volume in the <i>Long Line of Godly Men</i> series from Ligonier is, not surprisingly, the best yet. Dr. Ferguson makes the life, work, and legacy of Owen, one of the titans of the faith, fresh and lively for a whole new generation.<br /><br />4. <i>God Dwells Among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth</i> by G.K. Beale and Mitchell Kim (IVP) This is a very practical and pastoral distillation of the much-larger and more-academic work by Beale, <i>The Temple and the Church's Mission</i>. For all kinds of reasons, I love this book even more than the original--and I was wowed by the original.<br /><br />5. <i>A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert</i> by Ben Palpant (IngramSpark) Adversity, sorrow, disappointment. None of us ever want it. But, all of us will surely face it. Ben Palpant's beautiful book--beautifully conceived and beautifully written--explores the dark profiles of suffering with the glistening light of hope. I am giving dozens of copies of this book away for Christmas.<br /><br />6. <i>Hidden But Now Revealed: A Biblical Theology of Mystery</i> by G.K. Beale and Benjamin Gladd (IVP) This a roll-your-sleeves-up-and-get-deep-into-the-marvels sort of book on hermeneutics and Bible study. Like all of Beale's work, it is integrative and inspirational, academic and practical, theoretical and pastoral. In short, it is a marvel of insight.<br /><br />7. <i>What's Best Next</i> by Matt Perman (Zondervan) The best single book on time-management/self-management/life-management from a Christian perspective I have ever read--and I've read everything I've ever been able to get my hands on. I have had all of my staff read through this--and I am thinking that we may reread it together later this next year. It's that good.<br /><br />8. <i>How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit</i> by Witold Rybczynski (FSG) Rybcynski is far and away my favorite writer on the subject of architecture. I have tried to read everything he has written--no mean feat given the fact that he has written voluminously and prodigiously. But, so far every book has been worth it. And his newest, a wonderful survey, is no exception. This book is part history, part sociology, part moral philosophy, and all architecture.<br /><br />9. <i>Happier at Home</i> by Gretchen Rubin (Doubleday) This sequel to the bestselling <i>Happiness Project</i> focuses specifically on habits that build family vision, family cohesion, family harmony, and family happiness. Though not a Christian work in any way, this is a wonderful sort of DIY-simple, nuts-and-bolts-personal, Pinterest-practical approach to healthy, loving homes.<br /><br />10. <i>Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life</i> by Daniel Klein (Penguin) This very slim volume is part travel adventure, part philosophy inquiry, part bibliophile romance, and part coming-of-old-age memoir. This is a most satisfying slow. lingering read. <br /><br />11. <i>Confessions of a Young Novelist </i>by Umberto Eco (Harvard) I have to confess that any and every Umberto Eco is irresistible for me. I'm fascinated by his omnivorous medieval mind, his gargantuan renaissance erudition, and his wry modern skepticism. In this collection of talks he waxes eloquent about the process of creative writing at the intersection of probing philosophical inquiry and wildly imaginative creativity.</span>gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-73037632329206854422014-11-01T17:51:00.001-05:002014-11-01T17:51:46.620-05:00A Will Rogers Election Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“A fool and his money are soon elected.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"America has the best politicians money can buy." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the entire government working for you."</span>gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-22128871022542229132014-07-27T10:01:00.001-05:002014-07-27T10:01:51.942-05:00J.R.R. Tolkien “On Fairy-Stories”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.”<br />
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“Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.” <br />
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“The trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.” <br />
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“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such waggeries as: ‘this book is for children from the ages of six to sixty.’ But I have never yet seen the puff of a new motor-model that began thus: ‘this toy will amuse infants from seventeen to seventy;’ though that to my mind would be much more appropriate. Is there any essential connexion between children and fairy-stories? Is there any call for comment, if an adult reads them for himself? Reads them as tales, that is, not studies them as curios. Adults are allowed to collect and study anything, even old theatre programmes or paper bags.” <br />
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“It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the turn comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality. In such stories when the sudden turn comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.” <br />
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“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish until they were cured. If they ever get into that state (it would not seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish, and become Morbid Delusion. For creative Fantasy is founded upon the hard recognition that things are so in the world as it appears under the sun; on a recognition of fact, but not a slavery to it. So upon logic was founded the nonsense that displays itself in the tales and rhymes of Lewis Carroll. If men really could not distinguish between frogs and men, fairy-stories about frog-kings would not have arisen.” <br />
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“The Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.” <br />
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“Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.” <br />
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“Although now long estranged,<br />
Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.<br />
Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,<br />
and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned:<br />
Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light<br />
through whom is splintered from a single White<br />
to many hues, and endlessly combined<br />
in living shapes that move from mind to mind.<br />
Though all the crannies of the world we filled<br />
with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build<br />
Gods and their houses out of dark and light,<br />
and sowed the seed of dragons- 'twas our right<br />
(used or misused). That right has not decayed:<br />
we make still by the law in which we're made.”<br />
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“Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.”<br />
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“The consolation of fairy stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly, the good catastrophe, the sudden, joyous turn (for there is no true end to a fairy tale); this joy, which is one of the things that fairy stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially escapist or fugitive. In it's fairy tale or other world setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace, never to be counted on to reoccur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, or sorrow and failure, the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies, (in the face of much evidence if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”<br />
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“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery .... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot.”<br />
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“Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.”gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-24647493453736225202014-07-01T12:57:00.001-05:002017-02-10T14:04:23.186-06:00Spurgeon on Prayer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.<br />
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The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!<br />
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It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.<br />
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It is well said that neglected prayer is the birthplace of all evil.<br />
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Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!<br />
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.<br />
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Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.<br />
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Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.<br />
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Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.<br />
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True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.<br />
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We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.</div>
gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617748432346398927.post-22622209006739806052014-06-14T13:25:00.000-05:002014-06-14T13:26:34.607-05:00A Solzhenitsyn Eleventary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”<br />
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“You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.” <br />
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“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will to live by faith not by sight, regardless of his outward circumstances.”<br />
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“You can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”<br />
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“Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?” <br />
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“That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life”<br />
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“It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably statist humanism bristles with policies and decrees, with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in smothering cultural sanity, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.” <br />
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“The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.”<br />
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“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he is doing is good or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification. Thanks to ideology, modernity was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed over, nor suppressed.”<br />
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“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of modernity.” <br />
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“We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.” <br />
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“Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with fashionable nonsense that is little more than perverse decadence. Is this really what has come of freedom?”<br />
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“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”gileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.com0