Category: Quotes & Commentary
Random Quotes from My Files
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James Orr & F. H. R. Frank on the Organic Unity of Christian Truth
“He who with his whole heart believes in Jesus as the Son of God is thereby committed to much else besides. He is committed to a view of God, to a view of man, to a view of sin, to a view of Redemption, to a view of the purpose of God in creation and history, to a view of human destiny, found only in Christianity.”
The Christian View of God & the World — p. 4
“The Christian truth, with the certifying of which we have to do, is essentially one, compact in itself, vitally interconnected, — as such at the same time organic, — and it is therefore not possible one should possess and retain a portion of the same, while yet not possessing or rejecting, the other portions. On the contrary, the member or portion of truth, it had been thought to appropriate or maintain alone, would by this isolating cease to be that which it was or is in itself; it would become a empty form or husk, from which the life, the Christian reality has escaped.”
So many R2K like modern preachers want to insist that ministers should only talk about the Cross and salvation in the pulpit. If Orr’s view above is correct such an approach is a sure way to stunt the growth of God’s people in the pew. While the Cross may be the center of the Christian faith from which all subjects depart and in which all subjects return, talking about the Cross apart from setting it in Christian Weltanschauung is like talking about the ocean to man who has never had a drink of water.
The minister must communicate to the flock that which helps the Cross make sense. It therefore must speak of anthropology, epistemology, axiology, teleology, and ontology. He needs to speak to his flock of law, education, sociology, politics, philosophy, family life, history, and economics. Because the Cross saves man from wicked thinking as well as wicked behavior preaching must speak to what wicked non-Christian thinking looks like in every area of life and then must round of by saying …”And such were some of you, but you were saved, you were washed, you were sanctified by the work of Christ on the Cross.”
Sundry Quotes from My Reading Over the Years on 31 March
I have a file system where I store choice quotes from my reading. It files my quotes according to the date. So, on every day of the calendar year I have a list of quotes from whatever I was reading on that date in that particular year. Below are just a few of the quotes from my reading over the years on 31 March.
“Show me the individual and I’ll show you the crime.”
Lavrentiy Beria
Head of Stalin’s Secret Police
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“So much so did the Southern ministers stir up the people against tyranny and wickedness, that one Yankee critic said he believed that the unmitigated set of villains in the South were the Methodists Baptists, Presbyterian, and Episcopal all talking secession, drinking mean liquor, and advocating the cause of Jeff Davis and the Devil. Every one of the officers of one Texas regiment was made up entirely of Methodist ministers”
Pastor John Weaver
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“For such a mongrel between a pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered the poltroonery of mankind, to run such a career of mischief. Call it then the Age of Paine.”
John Adams
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“If an offense comes out of the truth, it is better that the offense come than that the truth shall be concealed.”
St. Jerome
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Alfred Milner’s advice to the rulers in Britain in the context of outrage over the Boer War and the treatment of civilians,
“Ignore the screamers.”
Milner was the point man for the Anglo-Int’l Money elite.
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“All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.”
“To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed.”
Associate professor of politics and global studies wrote — Drexel University
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A few years ago, I wrote a book about the rise of a new educated class, the people with 60’s values and 90’s money who go to Starbucks, shop at Whole Foods and drive Volvos. A woman came up to me after one of my book talks and said, “You realize what you’re talking about is the Jews taking over America.”
My eyes bugged out, but then I realized that she was Jewish and she knew I was, too, and between us we could acknowledge there’s a lot of truth in that statement. For the Jews were the vanguard of a social movement that over the course of the 20th century transformed the American university system and the nature of the American elite.
06 November, 2005
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“The goal of the Rockefellers is world government, combining capitalism and Communism under the same tent. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced of such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
Murdered in the downing of KAL 007
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Dostoevsky & McAtee on Egalitarianism
The radical declares,
“Everyone belongs to all, and all belongs to everyone. All are slaves and equal in their slavery… Slaves are bound to be equal. Without despotism there has never been either freedom or equality, but in the herd there is bound to be equality…. The moment you have family ties or love you get the desire for property. We will destroy that desire; we’ll make use of drunkenness, slander, spying; we’ll make use of incredible corruption; we’ll stifle every genius in its infancy. We’ll reduce all to a common denominator!
Complete equality!”
The Possessed
Fydor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was a 19th century Russian writer who explored the human psyche, particularly as that psyche was conditioned by ideology and religion. In the quote above we find that Dostoevsky understood the nascent proto-Marxist type ideology which he believed were Demon like ideas from Western Europe that was possessing Russia.
It is interesting that even in 1873 Russia, Dostoevsky could identify the heart of collectivism that remains with us yet today. Dostoevsky understood that the end of equality, absolutized, is slavery….
Without Biblical distinctions regarding gender, roles, racial/ethnic groups, and authority structure, we will be amalgamated into the herd reality that Dostoevsky warns about. It will be a herd reality where a few elites are, in essence, the Farmers over the undistinguished and undifferentiated mass herd. Those who advocate complete equality in terms of “equality of identity” are the enemy and they are the enemy because Scripture identifies them as such. They are the enemy who overthrow the 5th commandment where a distinction and hierarchy of parents is required before they can be honored. They are the enemy who overthrow the great commission where a distinction of nations is required before those nations can be baptized, discipled and taught to observe all things taught by Christ. They are the enemy who overthrow Galatians 3:28 where a existing distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Slave and Free, Men and Women, must exist before there can be comforted that all can be justified in Christ. They are the enemy who overthrow the 9th commandment where a distinction must exist between what is my property and what is not my property before any forbidding of theft can make sense. Egalitarianism is the enemy and egalitarians are the enemy precisely because their egalitarianism strikes at the heart of God’s revelation. Keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Father of egalitarianism is to erase the distinction and hierarchy between the Creator and the creature. They desire to make God and man a common denominator. That is the ultimate distinction that is under attack in all of these penultimate battles.