“War is not the vilest form of evil, not the most evil of evils. An unjust trial, for instance, that scalds the outraged heart, is viler.” #Solzhenitsyn

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.”

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” ― Samuel Johnson

We love the Lord’s Day, because it is Christ’s. Every hour of it is dear to us—sweeter than honey, more precious than gold. It is the day he rose for our justification. It reminds us of his love, and his finished work, and his rest. — Robert Murray M’Cheyne

This is the Dutchest thing i have seen. Botic van de Zandschulp beats Alcaraz and still looks as if he just filed his taxes.

Wat een prachtig begin van de #AlgemeneBeschouwingen. Kamervoorzitter Martin Bosma begint de dag met Prediker 1. Uit de Statenvertaling.

"A Christianity that is no longer vibrant, becomes a contemporary paganism." John Douma

“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine

"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." Blaise Pascal

"To realize oneself as a creature is actively to appropriate an antecedent nature with a given form of which we are not the authors, and whose ends we are not at liberty to invent, adapt or subvert." John B. Webster John B. Webster

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"We shall hardly find anything more exasperating or harder to set right than the untruthful meaning which has been conveyed by telling the exact truth in such a way as to pit it in a false light. The worst kind of a lie is the truth told wrong." Elmer Brown

I believe that nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is

"Irreverence will be your downfall." Plato

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. -G.K. Chesterton

My Best Friend's wife (also an incredible friend in her own right) was recently diagnosed with #BreastCancer. They have 2 young kids & are in between jobs & moving when this happened. Would you consider donating to support? Please like, share, and RT! gofund.me/d2ab3354

"Christian hope is the consecration of desire, and desire is the hardest thing of all to consecrate. That will only happen as you begin to think how lovely the life according to Christ is." William Temple

"Errors about creatures are symptomatic of a spiritual disorder, and they must be healed by one's paying attention to the truth of Scripture." John B. Webster John Webster

You are torn apart by these many loves, restless everywhere and nowhere at peace. Gather yourself together into your real self. If anything outside you has been giving you joy, ask who is its author. – Augustine

The disastrous curricular-culling of the M.Div. degree needs to stop. More rigor, not less.