“If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play… Read more »
Miserable can be quite good. Some of C. S. Lewis’s best work was written out of misery. Miserable people can give deeply illuminating advice, too. I harp on this because the focus on happy is precisely where they go wrong. Their vague conception is that marriage is like a continuous dose of IV cocaine — you’re just happier all the… Read more »
As the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb observed more than a decade ago, “What was once stigmatized as deviant behavior is now tolerated and even sanctioned; what was once regarded as abnormal has been normalized.” But even more importantly, she added, “As deviancy is normalized, so what was once normal becomes deviant. The kind of family that has been regarded for centuries… Read more »
“Stand up for the truth of Christ; I would not have you be bigoted, but I would have you be decided.” ~Spurgeon
“I revere the man who, in his old age, when there is weight in every syllable that he utters, concludes his life by urging others to carry on the work of Christ.” ~Spurgeon
“The only advantage of fame is that it gives you a platform for service.” ~George Washington Carver
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day: I’d rather one would walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye’s a better pupil, and more willing than the ear, Fine council is confusing, but example’s always clear. The best of all the preachers are men who live their creed, For to see good put into action,… Read more »