Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent — and flew straight into the ground. She was unaware that she had been flying upside down.
This is a parable of human existence in our times—not exactly that everyone is crashing, though [...]
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Dallas Willard
Posted in Autonomy, Blindness, Brokenness, Culture, Experience, Humanity, Mankind, Spirituality, Westernism on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
C.S. Lewis
Posted in Beauty, Brokenness, Heaven, Humanity, Imagery, Joy, Love, Mystery on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach [...]
Arthur Miller
Posted in Autonomy, Creator, Humanity, Identity, Judgment, Meaning on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quentin: You know, more and more I think that for many years I looked at life like a case at law, a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then a good father; finally, how wise, or powerful, or what-the-hell-ever. But underlying it [...]
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Christian Life, Discipleship, Experience, Faith, Gospel, Humanity, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Story on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What happens here [in Mark’s Gospel] is that we are invited into becoming full participants in the story of Jesus and shown how to become such participants. We are not simply told that Jesus is the Son of God; we not only become beneficiaries of his atonement; we are invited to die his death and [...]
C.S. Lewis
Posted in Blindness, Experience, God, Humanity, Pain on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is His megaphone to rouse a dulled world. (C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed, p. 93)
Vincent Van Gogh
Posted in Arts, Autonomy, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Love, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Selfishness, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]
Tom Morris
Posted in Culture, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Knowledge, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Searching, Values, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)
Carl Sagan
Posted in Creation, Humanity, Mankind, Meaning, Science, Searching on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and [...]
Jane Kenyon
Posted in Arts, Beauty, Humanity, Poetry on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The poet’s job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it; to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name.† The poet’s job is to find a name for [...]
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