January 24th, 2007

"It is indelibly hard for us to see how there could be glory in suffering. But it is not hard to see that the death of Christ carries with it the force of something much more. The glory of the suffering Messiah lies in the magnitude of the love he showed on the Cross.
It was this very point that Jesus' disciples missed until his resurrection, and it is a point that many are still missing today. The Messiah's glory was not shown through his power, though it easily could have been, nor was it shown in status or position. But it was shown in his suffering and his love, and this remains a far-reaching hope."
-Stuart McAllister (http://www.rzim.org/) A Slice of Eternity - "Messianic Hope"

"An earthly society in which man is free to choose atheism is better than one in which he is compelled to choose theism."
- Carl F. H. Henry "The Christian Mindset in a Secular Society" (p 59)

"Western humanists, to be sure, champion human rights. They do so even though humanism as a philosophy provides no metaphysical basis adequate to preserve those rights in distinction from other principles that humanism relegates to a socio-cultural by-product of a particular period of history."
- Carl F. H. Henry "The Christian Mindset in a Secular Society" (p 65)