Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Bearing ourselves humbly before God … we await undismayed the impending assault … be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy – we shall ask for none.
–Sir Winston Churchill, BBC Broadcast, London, July 14, 1940
“I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”
From ChristianityToday.com:
“The great preacher and founder of the Methodist movement, John Wesley (1703-1791), was once approached by a man who came to him in the grip of unbelief. ‘All is dark; my thoughts are lost,’ the man said to Wesley, ‘but I hear that you preach to a great number of people every night and morning. Pray, what would you do with them? Whither would you lead them? What religion do you preach? What is it good for?’ Wesley gave this answer to those questions:
You ask, what would I do with them? I would make them virtuous and happy, easy in themselves, and useful to others. Whither would I lead them? To heaven, to God the judge, the lover of all, and to Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant. What religion do I preach? The religion of love. The law of kindness brought to light by the gospel. What is this good for? To make all who receive it enjoy God and themselves, to make them like God, lovers of all, contented in their lives, and crying out at their death, in calm assurance, “O grave where is thy victory! Thanks be to God, who giveth me victory, through my Lord Jesus Christ.”
“All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.”
“Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.”
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
-G.K. Chesterton
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
-G.K. Chesterton
hat tip: JR
Here are two memorable quotations from C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters:
- My dear Wormwood,
I note what you say about guiding your patient’s reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy’s clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier.
- Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
“The only thing inexpensive about Massachusetts’s health-care bill is that there you can get a $50 abortion.”
-Mike Huckabee, addressing social conservatives in September 2009
However you disguise it, this thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
-T.S. Eliott
“I am third.”
-Gale Sayers, former professional football player (the idea being: God is first, others are second, and “I am third.”)
“If religion be false, it is the basest imposition under heaven; but if the religion of Christ be true, it is the most solemn truth that ever was known! It is not a thing that a man dares to trifle with if it be true, for it is at his soul’s peril to make a jest of it. If it be not true it is detestable, but if it be true it deserves all a man’s faculties to consider it, and all his powers to obey it.”
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
-Anne Bradstreet, 17th Century Puritan and considered the first notable American poet
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
-G.K. Chesterton
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
-Edmund Burke
“When we say we’re going to be people of compassion, we need to realize what they consider compassion may not be what we consider compassion when we sit around in our circles of politics. They’re concerned about a son who may be held back in school, or about a daughter with asthma, or if one broken arm on the playground means missing the rent payment next month. Those of us who are people of faith have an obligation not only care who gets elected, but to care about lives and communities. That’s how we earn the right to present policies, not only to change America, but to change the world– when we care about life and care about people.”
-Mike Huckabee
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed.
-The author of Hewbrews, The Bible
“A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”
-Theodore Roosevelt, from his notable speech, “The Strenuous Life“