It is always the secure who are humble.
[T]he essence of Christianity was in a literal sense the New Testament — a covenant with God which opened to...
The instinct of mankind against pride.
[T]he instinct of mankind against pride, as the ultimate human evil, can be proved from the most prosaic details or...
The way to love anything.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, p. 56, quoted in...
Love your neighbor
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same...
Natural affection, a stronger angel and a fiercer ...
There’s something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite...
Perfect love casts out fear, but so do several oth...
Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things — ignorance, alcohol, passion,...
Don’t waste time bothering whether you ̶...
The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your...
He made bad and good rulers very much alike.
Otto Scott on Machiavelli, who was in many ways the father of modern politics: Machiavelli rationalized despotism,...
The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with yo...
The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with you. He will inform you of your ignorance; he will not enlighten...
They cannot convince the mind, but they do cloud i...
Just as it is the latest fad [of Freudian psychoanalysis] to prove that everything is sexual, so it was the last fad...
About the proprietor
Christian, husband, father, pastor, grandfather (How'd that happen?), adjunct professor, sometime composer, former lawyer, former military, former Floridian turned Idahoan, former basketballer turned golfer—that about sums it up. —Alan Burrow
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