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THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
“We have entered, as I see it, a spiritual limbo. Our educational institutions are no longer the bearers of high culture, and public life has been deliberately moronised. But here and there, sheltered from the noise and glare of the media, the old spiritual forces are at work” Roger Scruton
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“When a common culture declines, the ethical life can be sustained and renewed only by a work of the imagination.”-Roger Scruton
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“Jesus prayed, “This is eternal life, that they may know You . . .” (John 17:3). The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance— a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.” Oswald Chambers
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“No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness.” Oswald Chambers
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To those who have had no agony Jesus says, “I have nothing for you; stand on your own feet, square your own shoulders. I have come for the man who knows he has a bigger handful than he can cope with, who knows there are forces he cannot touch; I will do everything for him if he will let Me. Only let a man grant he needs it, and I will do it for him.” The Shadow of an Agony,Oswald Chambers
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“If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations.” John Calvin Coolidge
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Atheism is a post-Christian phenomenon.
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If social justice looks like your hand in someone else’s pocket then you are stealing.
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“In Sweden, giving to charity, absurdly, came to be considered a lack of solidarity, since it undermined the need for the welfare state.” – Roland Martinsson
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“…to love democracy well, it is necessary to love it moderately.” Alexis de Tocqueville
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Capitalism seeks to help others through a servce or product it provides. Free Market Capitalism is the most moral and fair economic system available to man. Capitalism augments personal growth, responsibility and ownership. Charity flourishes under capitalism. Charity dies under subjective “fair share” government confiscatory policies. Socialism redistributes ambivalence and greed.
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“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.” G.K. Chesterton
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” Flannery O’Connor
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“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).
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God’s grace is not about the allowance for sin. God’s grace is about the conversation God allows regarding sin.
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From the book of Proverbs: We are not to favor the rich or the poor. We are to pursue justice.
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“Always keep in contact with those books and those people that enlarge your horizon and make it possible for you to stretch yourself mentally.” Oswald Chambers
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One goldfish says to another, “If there is no God who keeps changing the water?”
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“The truth is always there in the morning.”
From Cat On A Hot Tin Roof script – playwright Tennessee Williams
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God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.
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“America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.” John W. Gardner
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“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.” John W. Gardner
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“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.” Dorothy L. Sayers
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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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This is what the LORD says:
“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
-The prophet Jeremiah, 6:16
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“…our common task is not so much discovering a truth hiding among contrary viewpoints as it is coming to possess a selfhood that no longer evades and eludes the truth with which it is importunately confronted.” James McClendon, Ethics: Systematic Theology, Vol. 1
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Whole Lotta Searchin’ Goin’ On
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2016 Proverbs (Observations, generally speaking.):
Astronomers search the universe for cosmic origins.
Physicists seek to understand the behavior of systems at atomic length scales and smaller using quantum mechanics.
Geneticists, in search of disease prevention and cures, scan the genetic code for the secret of life.
Archeologists search fossil and radiometric dating records for what has gone on before.
Anthropologists search for “missing links” and the ways and means of the past.
Nurses sonogram pregnant bellies for signs of life.
Philosophers search for why there is something rather than nothing.
Nihilists search for meaning in nothing and come up empty-handed and nauseous.
Wise men searched the night sky for kingdom beginnings.
Mathematicians seek solutions in our design-inherent universe.
Social scientists seek to nudge a human’s free will toward a “proper” response.
Capitalists seek value.
Socialists seek other people’s money.
Traders seek to buy low and sell high.
Long term stock and bond holders look for a return on their investment at some point in the future.
Investors seek the highest returns while shouldering prudent risk.
Psychologists, asking “how do you feel about that”, seek to redefine consequences away from morality.
Psychiatrists seek out the next tranquilizer to medicate “the problem.”.
Political scientists seek to define the perfect social order with or without property rights.
Attorneys seek favorable jurors and favorable verdicts.
Politicians seek power.
Progressives seek unicorns with your tax dollars.
The Ruling Class seeks to rule by fiat, making us serfs.
The ignorant seek to be reaffirmed in their ignorance.
Media conglomerates seek to capture our attention and our budget.
Homosexuals seek pride in their love of the creature rather than their Creator.
The transgendered seek to be ‘normalized’.
The lazy, self-absorbed and intolerant, but “diverse,” want something for nothing and call their demand “a right.”
Conservatives seek to preserve longstanding meaning, community and high culture.
Millennials, in this Age of Feelings, seek protectionism in safe spaces.
Blue-collar workers, who have not learned new skills, seek trade protectionism.
College students seek affirmation rather than the meaning of life.
Athletes seek trophies and endorsements.
The Good Shepherd searches for the Lost Sheep.
The son of man came to seek and to save the lost.
A woman searches for a lost coin, finds it, and rejoices.
Joseph and Mary searched for the boy Jesus and find him at the Temple, where God dwelt with men.
Christians seek and find faith as small as a mustard seed.
The House of Islam seeks to bring the whole world under submission to a supreme caliphate by any jihad necessary.
Buddhists seek enlightenment within themselves by numbing their consciousness with mantras.
TV preachers and faith-healers seek to wrench filthy lucre from wrenched bodies and souls.
The addicted seek a “fix” and so share a needle with others.
The contented seek to share life’s bounty with others.
High culture seeks to deepen our common religious/ethical community bonds.
Fiction writers seek to tweak our imaginations with universal questions posed by imaginary beings.
Architects seek to place function before form, denouncing the sublime in the process.
Art, high culture art, seeks to give the viewer laudable content in laudable form, evoking old and new sympathies.
Modern art seeks to give the viewer content in shock form, in order to deny meaning its value.
Climatologists seek anthropocentric fault in weather changes and “find” data to say it’s your fault.
“Enlightened” Epicureans seek godless pleasure and find a “way which seems right”.
Abortionists search the womb for “tissue” to suck out beginnings.
Euthanasians search for a vein to end beginnings.
Atheists, with a God-given consciousness, seek for nothing and find it and then credit themselves.
Fortune tellers search horoscopes, crystal balls and tarot cards for the almighty dollar.
Agnostics and Deists seek for a way around God.
And the search continues…
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“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.” –Flannery O’Connor
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