Category: quote
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“…nature reflects life…”
I think that nature reflects life, or life reflects nature, from seed time to harvest. Planting and weeding, cultivating. The full harvest comes, then emptiness. I don’t envy people who live in perpetual sunshine. I won’t say whether it’s right or wrong, but it doesn’t seem natural. The Rev. Dr. Gardner Taylor, Leadership Journal (Fall,…
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“…the highest pitch of artificial tension…”
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the…
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“They loved life…”
These people followed Jesus. To them, true doctrine and faithful obedience were one; there was no need to choose between them, and indeed no option to do so. They loved life, because life is God’s first and greatest gift, and they sought to nurture it everywhere they found it. They were friends to the unborn…
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The Racial Wealth Gap
Study after study shows that white families are more likely than blacks and Hispanics to enjoy certain economic advantages — even when their incomes are similar. Often it’s the subtle things: help from Mom and Dad with a down payment on a home or college tuition, or a tax break on money passed from one…
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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
There simply is nothing humanly possible to study about the created realm that, in principle, leads us away from Jesus Christ. To be sure, humans may misunderstand knowledge gained by studying the world, put it to evil uses, transform it into an idol, or otherwise abuse it. But these shortcomings do not alter the fact…
David W. Swanson 