Wisdom
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated. (C S Lewis)
Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important. (C S Lewis)
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. (G.K. Chesterton)
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or may be found a little draughty. (Samuel Butler)
The ONLY ABSOLUTE TRUTH is that there are NO ABSOLUTE TRUTHS (Feyerabend)
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. (Aristotle)
A culture that is rooted more in images than in words will find it increasingly difficult to sustain any broad commitment to any truth, since truth is an abstraction requiring language. (KEN MYERS)
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. (Dorothy Sayers)
“When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.” (Stephen Charnock)
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” George Orwell
When liberalism meets Chrstianity, the Bible is reduced to the “nice passages, and there is wide denial of evil, the demonic and Satan, as well as Hell. The liberal mind does not have a place for evil; liberals simply can’t deal with it. Why is that? Perhaps it has to do with a rebellious spirit that will not be told how to behave. And if they deny absolute evil and absolute good, they can live with moral relativism and be their own moral compass. They can be “free” to live in the kind of moral rebellion that is really imprisonment by one’s own desires (Wirth, “Pass the Plate and Let us Prey,” p. 206, Publish America, 2005).
