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“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.”
“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”
“... With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged by the disparate claims of other life-orders (Lebensordnungen)... a polytheistic and dis...”
“The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.”
“This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.”
“The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.”
“She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.”
“Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.”
“This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!”
“Technology presents us with a unique spiritual challenge. Because it is meant to serve us in fulfilling our created purpose, because it makes our lives easier, longer, and more comfortable, we are ...”
“All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.”
“From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the vid...”
“When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.”
“Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.”
“Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every pro...”
“To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of...”
“Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.”
“Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work...”
“Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by t...”
“I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance You oh God towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and...”
