Activity timeline
March 4, 2010
The modern age conceived of a gospel that matters primarily for the individual. The gospel was reduced to forgiveness as a transaction, a concern for personal morality, and the intellectual pursuit of doctrinal precision. In this view, the Bible became little more than a personal handbook for moral living and right thinking.
February 25, 2010
jason added Flickering Pixels to their library.
January 27, 2010
Too often we disdain our bodies as the source of sin and our fallenness; yet they are precisely where God the Spirit chooses to dwell.
January 15, 2010
Know that even as you seek to understand the Spirit more, He is so much more bigger than you will ever be able to grasp. This is not an excuse to stop seeking to know Him, but don't limit Him to what you can learn about Him. The point is not to completely understand God, but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
January 14, 2010
jason added Forgotten God to their library.
January 11, 2010
"This began to be alarming. It looked not so much as if Christianity was bad enough to include any vices, but rather as if any stick was good enough to beat Christianity with"
December 14, 2009
"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."
"..the proper form of thanks to it is some form of humility and restraint: we should thank God for beer and Burgundy by not drinking too much of them."
December 3, 2009
"But what we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be."
I didn't know what to expect when I began to read Chesterton, but have been pleasantly surprised by his biting wit, his unapologetic talent of a calling a spade as such, his touch of sarcasm, and a habit of relieving the tension with a laugh when he has trodden too far down a seriously heavy path.
For example: "Mr. Blatchford has a strange idea that he will make it easier to forgive sins by saying that there are no sins to forgive. Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who ought really to have been eaten by lions."
"The modern world is not too evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wated virtues."
You can find excellent examples of men who truly, "believe in themselves." They are in Hanwell.
"Shakespeare is quite himself; it is only some of his critics who have discovered that he was somebody else."
"Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."
"A moment's thought will show that if a disease is beautiful, it is generally someone else's disease. A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture."
"If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologian seem to think it rationalistic solution to deny the cat."
