August 7, 2008

"But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?"
- Alexsander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address; Thursday June 8, 1978


"If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die."
- ibid

April 6th, 2007

"Thus, twentieth-century men and women have inherited a stark dilemma. With God dead or ill, they are stripped of their source of dignity and reduced to sophisticated beasts. At the same time, society denies individual sin, blaming all social ills on environment, and illogically assumes human perfectibility."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms In Conflict" (p 78)

February 8th, 2007

"You see, it was Thomas Merton who observed that man is not at peace with his fellow man because he is not at peace with himself, and he is not at peace with himself because he is not at peace with God."
- Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org) A Slice of Infinity - "Peace Like A River"

"We must realize that the Reformation world-view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world-view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state."
- Francis Schaeffer "A Christian Manifesto" (p 114)

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)