What Is a Good Prayer?
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. — C.S. Lewis
Inveterate Peaceniks Won’t Like This One
If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that you were once our countrymen. — Samuel Adams
Fear Is Not a Bad Thing….
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. —Aeschylus If you think on this one in relation to your own life, you will doubtless see the truth in it. How many toddlers, despite constant warnings of “Don’t […]
Moments of Growth
In every department of life, [a sense of disappointment or anticlimax] marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Religious Principles Vital to National Security
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. — George Washington
Are You Truly Educated?
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle This is, I think, a very important point which we tend to forget in our debates both here on Blogit and elsewhere in society. Only the truly educated person can confront an alien thought and […]
What Will YOU Regret?
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
What Is Courage?
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart