Mysticism unquestionably is the natural result of the anti-intellectual tendency which now prevails; for mysticism is the consistent exaltation of experience at the expense of thought. — J. Gresham Machen
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Wittgenstein
Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
In matters of principle, stand like a rock;nin matters of taste, swim with the current. — Thomas Jefferson
Conferences that excite through music, eloquent speakers, and impassioned pleas build little fires in little hearts that burn out quickly. — Paul Washer
Having your own home business is great! You have a very flexible schedule. You decide which twenty hours of the day you want to work! — Bob Farewell
Don’t corner something meaner than you.
A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one’s own personal authority and always take full responsibility for one’s own actions. — Philip Zimbardo
With Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law; and every time they make a law it’s a joke. — Will Rogers
Are sense and feelings suitable to judge of the dispensations and designs of God by? Can their testimony be safely relied on? Is it safe to argue thus: ‘If God had any love for my soul, I should feel it now, as well as in former times; but I cannot feel it, therefore it is gone? May you not as well conclude, when the sun is invisible to you, that he has ceased to exist? — John Flavel
Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it? It is not “significant” to love your own children or to eat your own dinner, either. But normal humans will not wait to love or eat until it is mandated by an act of Congress. — Attributed to Henry Thoreau
It is plain to me that the line ought to be drawn without fail wherever it can be drawn easily … And yet, if we are ever again to have a world fit and pleasant for little children, we are surely going to have to draw the line where it is not easily drawn. — Wendell Berry
Two others accused me of self-righteousness, by which they seem to have meant that they think they are righter than I think I am. — Wendell Berry
I’m a disturbing programmer, I write disturbing code, my applications throw disturbing exceptions… it only follows that I ask disturbing questions! How else am I supposed to write disturbing code? — Guadala Harry
Atheists have license to scoff at damnation, but to believe in God and not in hell is ultimately to disbelieve in the reality of human choices. If there’s no possibility of saying no to paradise then none of our no’s have any real meaning either. They’re like home runs or strikeouts in a children’s game where nobody’s keeping score. — Ross Douthat
Fallor Ergo Sum — St. Augustine
All history is only one long story to this effect: Men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others. — Graham Sumner
[All] Christians are saints and therefore equally justified and renewed, with the same obligations to grow in their relationship with God and to love and serve their neighbors. — Dr. Michael Horton
If you see a drunk lying in the gutter, you wouldn’t hand him another bottle of booze to help him out. You would chastise him for the sin of his excessive drinking the night before. You would tell him to stop doing that, no matter how good it might feel when he drinks. You would insist that he “dry out” as a precondition for restoring a healthy condition. As it applies to the economy, the federal government boozed up the economy with its “easy money” and jawboning banks to issue bad mortgages. Its response to the “hangover” that it produced is precisely the wrong one. It is preventing the necessary adjustments from cleansing the economy and is putting us on a reckless path to inflation, debt and national bankruptcy. — Lawrence Reed
I’m high maintenance…I take aspirin for the headache caused by the Zyrtec I take for the hayfever I got from Relenza from the uneasy stomach from the Ritalin I take for the short attention span caused by the Scopederm Ts I take for the motion sickness I got from the Lomotil I take for the diarrhea caused by the Zenikal for the uncontrolled weight gain from the Paxil I take for the anxiety from the Zocor I take for my high cholesterol because exercise, a good diet, and regular chiropractic care are just too much trouble.