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“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
“Good apologists are not teachers but pointers to the Teacher.”
― Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained
― Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained
“Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many escape by transforming the tragedy of the human condition into the specific sins of specific societies. This turns an insoluble problem of cosmic justice into an apparently manageable issue of social justice. Since the sins of human beings are virtually inexhaustible, there is seldom a lack of examples of wrongdoing to which intergroup differences can be attributed, rightly or wrongly. Where the quest for injustice is over-riding, among the things it over-rides are logic and evidence.”
― Black Rednecks and White Liberals
― Black Rednecks and White Liberals
“For Augustine, the human will is always moved in one direction or another by the object of its love. In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were capable of moving either toward the love of God (amor Dei), or away from God and toward the love of self (amor sui). When they chose the latter, something disastrous happened both for them and for all their human descendents. Their free will was left intact in the sense that it was still they who acted and loved, and they who were therefore morally responsible for what they did; however, their free will was so distorted by sin that it was drawn away from the love of God, the true purpose for which they had been created. Now it was pulled in its innermost desires toward the love of self. In other words, human free will was so weakened by sin and the fall that it became "curved in on itself" (incurvatus in se).”
― Amazing Grace: God's Pursuit, Our Response
― Amazing Grace: God's Pursuit, Our Response
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