Households get worse in any society that normalizes women having full-time jobs outside the home.

“As it was, he didn't know enough about women even to suspect what she was up to. That was her good fortune but it did not increase her respect for him.”

“Indeed in America the Bible was the primary source for many of the ideals that shaped the culture. The Protestant doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture provided a further basis for the belief that the common person could readily understand Biblical teaching.”

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.” Psalm 39:7

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“To [Sam’s] surprise he felt tired but lighter, and his head seemed clear again. No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and only death would break it.”

“We must employ the contemplation of the divine decree for our own benefit. This includes: (1) fostering reverence for God, prompting repentance, and fleeing from sin, before the decree ushers in the day of judgment when we may perish like chaff (Zephaniah 2:2) or before it

Pope Pius XI sure didn’t want Catholics to check out the local SBC church.

You gotta love 19th-century speech. From Congregationalist pastor and theologian Roswell Hitchcock: “Infidel bugles are sounding in front of us, Papal bugles are sounding behind us.”

“Why doesn't he take his family and get out and find work? And stop living at Tara? Of course, it's just a whim of mine, but I don't intend to lend you a cent for Tara to help support him. Among men, there's a very unpleasant name for men who permit women to support them.”

“After the death sentence was passed on Adam and all his posterity, the only hope for salvation was for four things to happen. One, the covenant of works needed to continue to promise life and threaten death to all Eve's posterity. Two, there needed to be a child of the women who

“Despite predestination, the reprobate still sins freely, making choices based on counsel, deliberation, and rational decision. Predestination does not impede this freedom. After freely sinning, they are justly condemned as a result.”

“It is not without significance, that in no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything

Reading good books is not merely about getting information. It trains your mind in the arts of thinking carefully, remembering, and paying attention.

“Scarlett did not mean to be short tempered and she really wanted to make Frank a good wife… She could never respect a man who let her run over him and the timid, hesitant attitude he displayed in any unpleasant situation, with her or with others, irritated her unbearably.”

“In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Psalm 56:10-11

“In short, the realm of he who rules in the name of God alone is best and most stable, and he who rules in accordance with his own will is worst and most unstable.”

Faramir to Eowyn, awaiting news of what has happened at the Black Gate: “‘I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy

“God punishes not because someone acts in accordance with His decree, but because they willingly transgress the law given to them, unaware of His decree, and motivated by their own desires.”

What wars are just? When is violence good and necessary? Michael Clary and Wade Thomas discussed this and more in the newest episode of CRP. open.spotify.com/episode/5beYT4…