Tag: Chrestomathy

“Effective preaching is a supernatural event.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 263

“This is why we should want to preach the kind of hot gospel that creates the kind of people who take those risks. The way we sometimes talk, it is as though we think the yard markers on the sidelines of the football game are capable of making first downs. And in a free economy, people don’t take risks (for the most part) because they are daredevils. They take risks because of who and what they love. Civilizations are built by men who have families to feed.”

Mis-Inflation, p. 108

“I have felt (for many years) that there was something seriously off in the standard trade deficit concerns. When it comes to household economics, I have never worried about more coming in than going out.”

Mis-Inflation, p. 95

“Your problem with Uncle Wyatt is not that he is protecting himself, but rather that he is not guarding himself against the real risk—the risk of becoming the kind of risk-averse person who basically paralyzes himself. The wicked lazy servant set out to protect himself in the first instance, and the one thing he did not successfully do was protect himself.”

Mis-Inflation, pp. 92-93

“The servant who buried the talent might have been the only one of three who returned anything of financial worth to his master. But he still would have been the wicked servant.”

Mis-Inflation, p. 92

“Uncle Wyatt has gold under the floorboards because the government can’t print it, and he has the idea that there is an inevitable crackup coming—when the government will desperately need to print gold and won’t be able to. In other words, I don’t think many of them are thinking so much like nine to five steady-as-she-goes investors as they are thinking like someone trying to survive a mash-up between Thunderdome and the killer-bee part of the book of Revelation.”

Mis-Inflation, p. 75

“So if debt is unpayable, and is steadily increasing, does there have to come a moment when the debt is repudiated?”

Mis-Inflation, p. 62

“A guy in a bunker with a chest full of gold might survive okay, but God put us here to thrive, not simply survive. The issue is not whether he is putting his resources into the right kind of investment, but rather whether he is becoming the right kind of man.”

Mis-Inflation, pp. 60-61

“If the government debt load is shrinking relative to the GDP, then we are moving in a direction where government spending has decreasing influence over a growing economy.”

Mis-Inflation, p. 45

“It seems to me that our team is really good at explaining the fact of having fallen off the skyscraper, and really bad at judging the distance to the sidewalk.”

Mis-Inflation, p. 20