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| 69347d9 | Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the 'war to end wars' as it had come to be called at the nadir of hopes for its eventual conclusion, Europe was once again gripped by the fear of a new war, provoked by the actions and ambitions of war lords more aggressive than any known to the old world of the long nineteenth-century peace. | John Keegan | ||
| ecebd91 | The Bible, just as it is, still works. Don't try to explain it. Just accept it. That won't make you a mindless zombie. It just means you are accepting your own human limitations and acknowledging by faith that something bigger than ourselves is happening, someone bigger is behind it, and we have the privilege to be a part of it. | Peter Enns | ||
| 9961c32 | When you read the Bible on its own terms, you discover that it doesn't behave itself like a holy rulebook should. | Peter Enns | ||
| 3cae58f | As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time. | Peter Enns | ||
| db1e06e | was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it." | Peter Enns | ||
| 1296125 | The Bible looks the way it does because "God lets his children tell the story," so to speak. Children see the world from their limited gaze. A second grader might give a class presentation on what mom does all day. She will talk about her mom from her point of view, rooted in love and devotion. She'll filter--unconsciously and in an age-appropriate manner--her mother's day through how she perceives her family and her role in the family. She.. | Peter Enns | ||
| 5a473d6 | We understand today that the physical universe is bigger and older and operates very differently than how the biblical writers, and all other ancient people, thought. Many Christians stumble over this, thinking they are showing respect for the Bible and obeying God by making the biblical story mesh with modern science, or rejecting modern science entirely in favor of God's Word. But there is no need to feel embarrassed or unfaithful by ackn.. | Peter Enns | ||
| 6da1ea9 | Readers who come to the Bible expecting something more like an accurate textbook, a more-or-less objective recalling of the past--because, surely, God wouldn't have it any other way--are in for an uncomfortable read. But if they take seriously the words in front of them, they will quickly find that the Bible doesn't deliver on that expectation. Not remotely. | Peter Enns | ||
| 946cf41 | When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey. That journey was recorded over a thousand-year span of time, by different writers, with different personalities, at different times, under different circumstances, and for different reasons. In | Peter Enns | ||
| ae5cb4c | The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the people of God, who are bound to one another and to the faithful through the generations. (page 263) | communion lord-s-supper ritual | Peter Enns | |
| 3f53f2e | Lord, help me let go of control. Help me die. Help me trust. | Peter Enns | ||
| 750854b | If we let the Bible be the Bible, on its own terms--on God's terms--we will see this in-fleshing God at work, not despite the challenges, the unevenness, and ancient strangeness of the Bible, but precisely because of these things. Perhaps not the way we would have written our sacred book, if we had been consulted, but the one that the good and wise God has allowed his people to have. | Peter Enns | ||
| b4c9931 | The rise of the buffered identity has been accompanied by an interiorization; that is, not only the Inner/Outer distinction, that between Mind and World as separate loci, which is central to the buffer itself; and not only the development of this Inner/Outer distinction in a whole range of epistemological theories of a mediational type from Descartes to Rorty;' but also the growth of a rich vocabulary of interiority, an inner realm of thoug.. | Charles Taylor | ||
| 85c8a2d | Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 1ec1fc2 | It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly "express" these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble up from there. "Doctrines" are the cognitive, theoretical articulation of what we "understand" when we pray." | prayer worship | James K.A. Smith | |
| c75695c | We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 29eda3e | In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 6a65641 | Antoine de Saint-Exupery captures this well: "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| f7cd0d7 | Worship is the arena in which God recalibrates our hearts, reforms our desires, and rehabituates our loves. Worship isn't just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts. Form | James K.A. Smith | ||
| f289fc4 | By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms tr.. | desire disciplines imagination marketing ritual values | James K.A. Smith | |
| 6c5a4ad | It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine and Aquinas. On this ancient-medieval-properly-postmodern model, we rightly give up pretensions to absolute knowledge or certainty, but we do not thereby give up on knowledge altogether. Rather, we can properly confess that we know God was in Christ reconciling the world to himse.. | christianity god jesus knowledge objectivity radical-orthodoxy religious-knowledge revelation | James K.A. Smith | |
| 3430917 | A sacramental understanding of the world is simply a shorthand way of describing the psalmist's claim that "The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it" (Ps. 24:1), echoed in Paul's claim that in the Creator God "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28)." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| f3d0ad3 | Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718). | James K.A. Smith | ||
| b43cf71 | The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. | writing writing-advice | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 926a750 | When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. | motivation writing | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 6270b2f | If achieving success were easy, more people would do it. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| 8baf5fe | Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: "People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them." | inspirational people | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 3a90ff9 | Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| d5defca | Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that's one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring). | writing writing-process | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 9016a87 | Never trust a man who hollers at the help, | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 23365a1 | S]he realized quite abruptly that this thing which took him off, which kept him out so many hours day after day, this thing that was against her own little will and instincts--was enormous as the sea. It was no mere prettiness of single Trees, but something massed and mountainous. About her rose the wall of its huge opposition to the sky, its scale gigantic, its power utterly prodigious. What she knew of it hitherto as green and delicate fo.. | trees | Algernon Blackwood | |
| 76351d7 | And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart. | Algernon Blackwood | ||
| 069d5b8 | The bleak splendors of these remote and lonely forests rather overwhelmed him with the sense of his own littleness. That stern quality of the tangled backwoods which can only be described as merciless and terrible, rose out of these far blue woods swimming upon the horizon, and revealed itself. He understood the silent warning. He realized his own utter helplessness. | Algernon Blackwood | ||
| 185b113 | He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death. - Secret Worship | Algernon Blackwood | ||
| ca05a1a | It was clear, however, that the woman had in herself some secret source of joy, that she was now an aggressive, positive force, sure of herself, and apparently afraid of nothing in heaven or hell. | Algernon Blackwood | ||
| ab05174 | Eventually 400,000 Germans were sterilized, and the Vatican did not issue a Pastoral Letter against it for another decade, only after the tide of the war had begun to turn against the Nazis).23,I | Gerald Posner | ||
| 314fa42 | This was a cruelty made by history. Long after serfdom had been abolished the land captains exercised their right to flog the peasants for petty crimes. Liberals rightly warned about the psychological effects of this brutality. One physician, addressing the Kazan Medical Society in 1895 said that it 'not only debases but even hardens and brutalizes human nature'. Chekhov, who was also a practising physician, denounced corporal punishment, a.. | corporal-punishment | Orlando Figes | |
| f4e0492 | The worst violence was reserved for the Jews. There were 690 documented pogroms -- with over 3,000 reported murders -- during the two weeks following the deceleration of the October Manifesto. The Rightist groups played a leading role in these programs, either by inciting the crowed against the Jews or by planning them from the start. | Orlando Figes | ||
| 6e69655 | For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown. | Orlando Figes | ||
| afc3913 | He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster. | Pat Frank | ||
| ce669a0 | There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general. | Pat Frank | ||
| 1e24994 | Beloved. Heart of mine. I know you are weary. Forgive me. I cannot let you go. There is no other for me. You can do this--for me. For us. Fight for us, beloved. | Christine Feehan | ||
| c86192b | I am justice," Gregori said softly, his voice impacable in its resolve. "There can be no fight, no battle, as there can be only one outcome. Mental or physical bout, or simply a match of our wits, there can be only one end. I am justice.That is all." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 6e3a030 | Gregori was as still as a statue, his face a blank mask, his silver eyes as empty as death, yet Shea gave him a wide berth. There was something dangerous in his utter stillness. Shea felt she had no way to sorting out the complexity of the Carpathian male's nature. Gregori was watching Raven through narrowed, restless eyes, eyes that saw far too much. Suddenly he cursed, low and vicious, startling from someone of his stature and power. "She.. | Christine Feehan |