Theology That Bites Back
“Our goal for our girls should be to have them as educated as the Lord’s mother was when the archangel Gabriel appeared to her. A careful review of her Magnificat, likely the work of a girl still in her teens, reveals that she, at any rate, was no silly juggins.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 135
“Because they think a woman’s ‘job’ requires little more than possession of a womb and enough literacy to read the instructions on the side of a biscuit mix box, they consequently disparage the place of education in a woman’s life.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 134
“No one gets happier and happier until one day they decide to get right with God. No, it goes the other direction, and going in the other direction is unpleasant.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 130
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“The faithful say thus saith the Lord instead of it seems to me. The message of the Bible is proclaimed and declared by heralds. John the Baptist did not come out of the wilderness issuing invitations to seminars.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 129
Letter to the Editor: What advice on following the Fifth Commandment would you give to an American-born citizen whose parents are illegals? Jake Jake, I would advise ...
“God did not create a safe world for us. Even before the sin of man ruined so much, the paradise of Eden had a serpent in it. Adam was in a momentous conflict before he sinned. God insists that we bet with real money. God requires us to risk things. This risk includes all that we hold dear, and to shrink back from it is to incur the displeasure of God. The wicked and lazy servant was the one who would not risk what had been entrusted to him. To play it safe is to play it dangerous.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 127
"The Nazis largely got into power by simply talking the old straight stuff about heroism in a country full of cynics and buggers." C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters, Vol. 2, p. 346 ...
“The shepherd who will not fight the wolves does not love the sheep. The shepherd who loves to fight simply for the sake of fighting, and wolves will do for an adversary, is a shepherd with disordered affections. The shepherd must hate the wolves because he loves the sheep. If he hates the wolves because loves to hate, then he is a wolf himself.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 126
