In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask what people see in the actual operations of government that inspires them to trust it to transform our economies, societies and characters for the better.
“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’ whispered Anne softly.”
The end of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.”
C.S. Lewis quoted by Russ Kosits in Convivium Vol. 2 #11 (December 2013 - January 2014) - Kosits calls it “the ‘argument from desire’ made famous by C.S. Lewis”
In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the “Karen meets Marley” tale of people buying themselves an $825 Chanel advent calendar then ranting against it online.
“for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
“We believe that the sun is in the sky at midday in summer not because we can clearly see the sun (in fact, we cannot) but because we can see everything else.”
C.S. Lewis Miracles (having conceded the enormous difficulty of evaluating directly whether the Incarnation happened or not).
“How can these people strike dignified attitudes, and pretend that things really matter, when the total ludicrousness of life is proved by the very method by which it is supported? A man strikes the lyre, and says, ‘Life is real, life is earnest,’ and then goes into a room and stuffs alien substances into a hole in his head.”
The king in G.K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“The truth is, whatever you can’t talk about is already out of control in your life…”
Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life