Category: Quotes
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Gems from Esolen
Here are a couple of great quips from Anthony Esolen’s book Out of the Ashes: “The health of a society may be gauged by how full the churches are, those beating hearts of culture and communion.” “We do not produce many great comedians in the present. We do produce a lot of material for comedians in…
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C. S. Lewis on Women’s Ordination
From C. S. Lewis’ essay against priestesses in church – a couple of the best paragraphs he ever wrote: “It is painful, being a man, to have to assert the privilege, or the burden, which Christianity lays upon my own sex. I am crushingly aware how inadequate most of us are, in our actual and…
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Obey God’s Law in All of Life
This law, moreover, demands instant and absolute obedience, not only from all classes of Christians, but also in every sphere of human life equally. A Christian is just as much under obligation to obey God’s will in the most secular of his daily businesses as he is in his closet or at the communion table.…
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American Presbyterians Once Had Confidence in the Growth and Triumph of Christ’s Kingdom
This kingdom is to endure for ever, gradually to embrace all the inhabitants of the earth, and finally the entire moral government of God in heaven and on earth. The little stone which breaks the image will become a great mountain and fill the whole earth (Dan. 2:35). This gospel of the kingdom is to…
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When American Presbyterianism Had a Backbone
“If Christ is really king, exercising original and immediate jurisdiction over the state as really as He does over the Church, it follows necessarily that the general denial or neglect of His rightful lordship, any prevalent refusal to obey that Bible which is the law-book of His kingdom, must be followed by political and social…
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TPC’s Bright Vision in a Dark Age
I have often thought this quotation from T. S. Eliot sums up what TPC is all about and what we are trying to do: The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time:…
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The Failure of Feminism and Modern Liberalism
Heather MacDonald, explaining why feminism can never work: Feminists cannot acknowledge the divide between men and women when it comes to sex and sensibility. Doing so would violate what Steven Pinker calls the blank slate doctrine, a foundation stone of modern liberalism. One of that doctrine’s core tenets is that “differences between men and women…
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Quotebook #4
Doug Wilson on community– Learning to live in genuine community is one of the central goals that we have set for ourselves. And, to be honest, we did not set the goalit is set before us in Scripture as one of the basic elements of the Christian faith. We are one in Jesus Christ, and…
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Quotebook #3 (Courage)
“Courage is not a particular virtue, but rather all of the virtues when tested. It stands to reason that cowardice, then, is not simply one vice, but rather a failure of all of the virtues when put to the test.” – C. S. Lewis (paraphrased) “Men do not follow titles, they follow courage.” – William…
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Merry Christmas!
Yes, we are technically still in the Advent season for a couple more days, but this is the time of year folks begin to greet one another with “Merry Christmas!” The origin and exact meaning of the phrase “Merry Christmas” is somewhat debatable, largely because the word “merry” has carried different connotations at different times.…
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