December 22, 2008

"Justice without power is impotent; power without justice is tyranny."
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

August 6, 2008

"Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. One would then like to ask by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time and with what prerogatives?"
- Alexsander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address; Thursday June 8, 1978

August 29th, 2007

"The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stranger the diversity, the more massive the unity."
- Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Mind of the Maker" (p 53)

April 18th, 2007

"Today's misspent enthusiasm for political solutions to the moral problems of our culture arises from a distorted view of both politics and spirituality - too low a view of the power of a sovereign God and too high a view of the ability of man. The idea that human systems, reformed by a Christian influence, pave the road to the Kingdom - or at least, to revival - has the same utopian ring that one finds in Marxist literature. It also ignores the consistent lesson of history that shows that laws are most often reformed as a result of powerful spiritual movements. I know of no case where a spiritual movement was achieved by passing laws."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms in Conflict" (p 304)

"It is ludicrous for any Christian to believe that he or she is the worthy object of public worship; it would be like the donkey carrying Jesus into Jerusalem believing the crowds were cheering and laying down their garments for him."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms in Conflict" (p 271)

"The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It's difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms in Conflict" (p 272)

January 26th, 2007

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."
- 1 Corinthians 1:18