Ideals are all very well in their way, but…

…Yet even in the stress of work it is often sound policy for a man to halt for a moment and collect his thoughts. There must be some diagnosis of the problem before him, the end to which his work is directed, the conditions under which he labours. While it is useless to tell the [...]

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Doing right, or doing wrong

This snippet of John Wayne monologue from “The Alamo” has a pointed way of describing what happens to a man when he decides to do wrong.

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Quote of the Day: Kinds of Christians

From Randy Alcorn, on his Facebook page: Unfortunately, many nonbelievers know only two kinds of Christians: those who speak the truth without grace and those who are very nice but never share the truth. What they need to see is a third type of Christian—one who, in a spirit of grace, loves them enough to [...]

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Quote of the Day

‘America was designed by Providence for the theatre on which man was to make his true figure, on which science, virtue, liberty, happiness, and glory were to exist in peace.’ – John Adams, quoted in ‘The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution’, by Bernard Bailyn, p. 20 hat tip: Scott Ott (on Facebook)

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Better than a big home run

So, what’s more thrilling than hitting a home run to win a World Series game? Carlton Fisk said…(click through to find out).

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Funny thing about objectors to ‘indoctrination’

From a Mere Comments post by James M. Kushiner: Heads, hearts, not to mention C. S. Lewis’s “chest” need to be properly formed, that is to say, informed. Those who object that this amounts to indoctrination are probably most likely to be the most eager to educate your children.  

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A worrisome acknowledgment

I have been hearing that Saul Alinsky dedicated Rules for Radicals to Lucifer. Well, yes and no. I went over to browse the book on Amazon, and this is what I found. On an introductory page, prominently featured, are three quotes. The first, from Rabbi Hillel, urges, “Where there are no men, be thou a [...]

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Liberty, Power, and Principles

The following is from a letter Donald J. Boudreaux sent to the Washington Post: Speculations centered on party struggles are tiresome. The real struggle is between persons who love liberty and persons enthralled with power.  A liberty lover refuses to exercise power over others and, therefore, has solid principles upon which he can stand when [...]

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Cheat the Prophet

In the 1904 novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill, G.K. Chesterton explained the game of “Cheat the Prophet”: The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is going to happen in the next generation. The players wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury [...]

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So true

This quote is used to introduce the novel The Proposal, by Angela Hunt (Tyndale House, 1996): It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. – Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”

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