May 22nd, 2007

"Whether considering business, politics, family, or education, the big fish eats the little ones. Laws and regulations do limit excessive abuse; however, they only mark the space in which the war is waged. They don't eliminate the war."
- Miroslav Volf "Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace" (p 14)

"Shouldn't the giver deprive us of gifts - at least, future gifts - if we can't even recognize them as gifts and instead claim them as our own well-earned possessions? A human giver might see it that way. But God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependant on our receiving things rightly. Indeed, since our very existence is a result of God's grace, if God were to stop giving, we would stop existing."
- Miroslav Volf "Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace" (p 36)

"The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it."
- Martin Luther "Luther's Works" (31:57)

February 5th, 2007

"Sorrow is founded on the value of something, pessimism upon the value of nothing."
- G. K. Chesterton "As I Was Saying" (p 267)

"Hope, like character, takes years to build and minutes to shatter."
- Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org) A Slice of Infinity, "Something of Value"

"For with the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be."
- James 3:9-11

Question: "The problem was, and is, What is an adequate base for law? What is adequate so that the human aspiration for freedom can exist without anarchy, and yet provides a form that will not become arbitrary tyranny?"
- Francis Schaeffer "A Christian Manifesto" (p 27)

"A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty"
- John Witherspoon

"If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants."
-William Penn

January 3rd, 2007

"Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, was are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."
- Galatians 3:23-29