1| From Screwtape to Wormwood in "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis. Pages 34 and 35: | Once you have made the World an End and Faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes and crusades matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours - and the more 'religious' (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty cageful of them down here. |
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| James 1: | 26-27 (NIV): If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. |
A Cracked Kettle
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
-Gustave Flaubert
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“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” - John 15:5
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The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones that we argue, but the ones that we assume.
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“I was born to catch dragons in their dens and pick flowers. To tell tales and laugh away the morning. To drift and dream like a lazy stream and walk barefoot across sunshine days.” -James Kavanaugh
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“…Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting evil in the fields we know…”
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