October 3, 2008

"I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war."
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

May 23, 2008

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- George Orwell

April 17, 2008

"Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God."
- Romans VII: 5-8 (NIV)

April 19th, 2007

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
- John 16:33 (NIV)

"When the church aligns itself politically, it gives a priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession of eternal truth."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms In Conflict" (p 311)

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)