October 7th, 2007

"From bondage to spiritual faith.
From spiritual faith to great courage.
From great courage to liberty.
From liberty to abundance.
From abundance to selfishness.
From selfishness to complacency.
From complacency to apathy.
From apathy to dependency.
From dependency back again into bondage."
- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler - "The Cycle of Nations"

July 11th, 2007

"The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces."
- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (Preface, pg xxvi)

June 18th, 2007

"Someone once described an historian as a prophet in reverse, and it is the coming together of both of these records, the prophetic and the historic, that makes up the series of books known collectively as the Bible. This is precisely the claim the gospel writers make. Descriptions of past happenings, predictions of future events, and the recording of these events "coming to pass" make up the written record of God's own authoritative interpretation of both the world in which we live and the understanding of our place in it. It is a fantastic claim, and one that I think can be supported by good evidence. Have you taken time to look into it?
- Michael Ramsden (www.rzim.org), "Is Everything an Illusion?"