“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM “ in Epoch Times email teaser Dec. 17, 2022 without further attribution.
“Every Whit Sunday, Christians are reminded that the day of Pentecost is a historical fact – just as much as Christ’s birth, his miracles, his death on the cross, and literal physical resurrection, and his ascension. This needs to be emphasized more than ever today – our gospel and our salvation is not a mere teaching or a philosophy, but primarily a series of acts, with meaning and purpose. We should never lose sight of the historicity of what we are considering here. So what we read in Acts 2 is something that literally happened in the way that is described. Luke was primarily an historian and his concern was to give to Theophilus, to whom he had already written his gospel, a further account of the continuing action and activity of the Lord Jesus Christ; and so he is dealing here with something that belongs solidly and purely to the realm of history. What happened in Acts 2, as the records makes so plain and clear, was that the early church was baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Joy Unspeakable: Power & Renewal in the Holy Spirit
In my latest Loonie Politics column I note the irony of people who spent decades destigmatizing everything and saying we should all do whatever we feel like now complaining that nowadays we all just do whatever we feel like.
“Quick, who said this? ‘(C)itizens, you are all first of all equal among yourselves, and your rights take priority over those of the state. The collectivity is not the bearer of rights: it receives the rights it exercises from the citizens.’ ‘A: Ronald Reagan. B: Donald Trump, or C: Pierre Trudeau?’ ‘Answer, C: Pierre Trudeau.’”
Mark Milke on Twitter August 11, 2022 [https://twitter.com/MilkeMark/status/1557747155456049152?t=bhSDdLbXvVXsEuzj-1hE-w&s=09] encouraging us to “See my column on Canada’s tradition of freedom. https://bit.ly/3BZAfJR”
In my latest Epoch Times column I say special rapporteur David Johnston’s report on the Liberal response to communist Chinese election meddling is what Justin Trudeau hoped for, but not what he or any of us needed.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Bill Blair’s smug stonewalling over the latest allegations of long delays in approving a warrant show that the federal Liberals are still flailing as this breaking scandal moves faster than they can Observe, Orient, Decide and Act.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach us.”
Aldous Huxley quoted in Andrew Roberts “Introduction” in Andrew Roberts, ed., What Might Have Been (as from a letter written in 1959) and also by managing editor Geoffrey Stevens in Maclean’s April 19, 1999
In my latest National Post column I say the tricksy maneuvering over the U.S. debt ceiling, in which the one problem no one seems able address is chronic overspending, reminds me uncomfortably of late ancien régime France.