[rlmorel]

I have had this new tagline for a few weeks now...good posting!

[knarf]

Thanx, Kaslin.
I especially like;

"18) You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred — like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens."

[nikos1121]

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[FreedomPoster]

I keep the full version of #1 on my profile page. It reads:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

[HerrBlucher]

Thanks for those quotes, Lewis was a true “freethinker.”

[PastorJimCM]

Thank you for those quotes. I will be pondering them for quite some time - point by point.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Those are great quotes! Thanks for posting them!

[Arlis]

THANK YOU KASLIN!!!

Passing on to MANY!

My two favs: C.S. Lewis & Oswald Chambers.

They condense more profound truth into few words better than anyone else it seems.......

[SoothingDave]

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on (the devil's) part, be turned into a sense of injury.

That's the welfare state mentality.

[zeugma]

21) The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

Needs to be repeated often. The quote for #1 also has more to it, that more fully explains his reasoning.

[dangerdoc]

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