“Diseases enter by the mouth, misfortune issues from it.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“If God’s ordinances are sure and certain, then God must be dependable. We can rely on him. God’s laws are unchanging. God is not evolving; hence his laws are not evolving. Perfection cannot be improved upon .... There are no mood swings with God. He is not fickle. He does not change with the times. The changing god, the evolving god who suddenly gets with it, is no god at all, since he is a god fashioned at our own impulse, made to suit and bless our ever-changing whims.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
In my latest Mercatornet column I compare the re-impeachment of Donald Trump with some other examples of historical vindictiveness.
“peaceful anarchy, than which nothing could be more impossible, given human nature as it is.”
Mortimer J. Adler Ten Philosophical Mistakes
“Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You may come to ask yourself, ‘What should I do today?’ in a manner that means ‘How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?’”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (quoting himself and all upper-case in the post) November 11 2020
“You recall that Timothy was warned by St. Paul that anyone who neglects to provide for his own house (meaning his own family) has disowned the faith and is ‘worse than an infidel.’”
Margaret Thatcher to the Church of Scotland, quoted in Fr. James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
“‘An angry man,’ said Confucius, ‘is always full of poison.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living