Good quote I came across today:
“Indeed we must say this: as God did not will the fall, and yet always wills all things toward himself, the entire history of sin and death is in an ultimate sense a pure contingency, one that is not as such desired by God, but that is nevertheless constrained by providence to serve his transcendent purpose. God does not will evil in the sinner. Neither does he will that the sinner should perish (2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 33:11). He does not place evil in the heart. He does not desire the convulsive reign of death in nature. But neither will he suffer defeat in these things."
David Bentley Hart’s The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
Sir Thomas More
"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction" - Thomas Jefferson
"In a democracy that is free and robust, an opinion is no more disqualified for being religious than for being atheistic, or psychoanalytic, or Marxist, or just plain dumb" Richard John Neuhaus
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About Me
- macman
- aka, Norbert, closet philosopher, wanna be theologian, loves to read, has no time to read, but occasionally peruses First Things, Aquinas, Dubay and various news items on a blackberry. Plays a Warrior bass guitar but will provide a good home for any strays, especially 5 string frettless. Generally congenial but known to lose his sanity when trying to comprehend politicians and the stock market.
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That's basically the Silmarillion without the elves. Precisely why I like that book so much. (“Thou, Melkor,shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.”)
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