Tag: Chrestomathy

“If knowledge puffs up, what does pseudo-knowledge do?”

The Cultural Mind, p. 33

“When the prodigal son ran off and began spending his inheritance, he did not find himself broke after five minutes of wasting money. When the inheritance is considerable, as ours was, some considerable time may elapse before the checks start to bounce.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 29

“Christians aren’t perfect, just asleep on the couch.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 26

“Sinners don’t do well on Easy Street.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 25

“We rest for one day and are refreshed and enabled to work before Him for the other six. But the modern man wants to work for five in order to play for two, and if the union negotiations are successful, work for four in order to play for three.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 25

“Although the memory is dim, we still refer today to ‘the Protestant work ethic.’ This is like an impoverished man in the gutter recalling how wealthy his great-grandfather was.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 23

“To understand our culture’s inability to resist the claims of ‘gay activists,’ we must understand that they are reasoning from premises held by most of straight America, i.e. that sexual autonomy and sexual wisdom are consistent with one another.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 21

“We have come to believe that experience in sin qualifies us to speak authoritatively. Christians should know better. The only man who can speak with full authority on the subject of sin is the Lord Jesus—who never sinned.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 20

“Malcolm Muggeridge once quoted the wit who identified a similar problem in the time of Britain’s decline: ‘Everything was at sea except for the fleet.’”

The Cultural Mind, p. 17

“One of the principal causes of grief in our broader culture today is that we have taken His instructions to Larry and assigned them to Moe, and the instructions given to Curly have been taken up by Larry.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 16