“When they cheat, and we get angry, this is nothing less that us enabling their cheating to work, to have its intended effect. The appropriate response is for them to cheat, and for us to grin” (Rules, p. 22).
When Mary Counted His Fingers
“The absolute Truth, the one who fills all things (Eph. 1:23) condescended to a place where He would have to fill his diapers. This — to the refined and philosophical mind — was outrageous, impudent, and even blasphemous . . . The ultimate Truth suckled at His mother’s breast, had ten fingers and ten toes, …
Let Them Cheat
“Conservative activists who are surprised or indignant at the gross lop-sidedness of the whole system are being foolish because they are expecting the devil to be a gentleman. They are expecting him to fight clean, and to avoid every form of fighting dirty. What makes us think he might do that? . . . The …
The Final Answer in Swaddling Clothes
“Good Friday answers Nietzsche, Easter answers Schopenhauer, the Ascension answers Hegel, and Pentecost answers Spinoza. But Christmas is the final answer to Plato and Kant, and in many ways it is the foundational answer to all the others” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 68).
The Applause Comes When He Has Been Dead Fifty Years
“The reformer cannot expect anything worthwhile to happen if all he hears is polite golf applause floating toward him from the establishment” (Rules for Reformers, p. 20)
Saving the Philosophers
“If you are going to rescue a lost race, one of the most important things you can do is deal with their know-it-alls who like being lost, just so long as they get to write books about it” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 67).
Contrary Contrarians
“There are two kinds of non-conformity, and only one of them wears hipster glasses” (Rules for Reformers, pp. 19-20).
What the First Christmas Was Not
“He did not come down here, He was not born on the earth, in order to work out a power-sharing arrangement with Caesar” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 66).
But Is Also the Reason Why There Is a PR Department
“A true reformer gives the PR department fits” (Rules for Reformers, p. 19).
Why Would They Be Off the Table?
“Jesus came into the world to save us from our sins, and our political sins are not exempt from this salvation” (God Rest Ye Merry, 65).