Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The problem with writing what amounts to affirmation literature exclusively for the already-convinced is that your critical faculties tend to atrophy. When you never have to analyze opposing arguments, apply consistent standards, or consider how your moral framework should constrain your own ideological side, you get lazy. — Jeff Childers
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." — Isaac Asimov
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe. But the axe was clever and told them because his handle was wood, he was one of them. — Unknown
At the dawn of the giving of the Law, a sign was given in Egypt: water turned to blood. At the dawn of the ministry of grace in Christ, a sign was given in Cana: water turned into wine. The blood of bulls and goats could never take away sins, but the blood of grapes represents that blood shed once for all that removes the guilt of sin forever.
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