Material mindset detrimental to personal growth - Starek

"It is highly probable that the mental set associated with performance in western society is not something to be aspired to if you seek a deeper connection with the core of your being."

- Joanna Starek, Studies on athletic success and self-deception 

Discernment - Charles Spurgeon

“Discernment is not simply a matter of telling the difference between what is right and wrong; rather it is the difference between right and almost right.”

- Charles Spurgeon

Christ's assumption - Gregory of Nazianzus

"Whatever He did not assume, He did not redeem."

- Gregory of Nazianzus, on the real incarnation of divine Christ as mortal man.

Grace teaches men to be gracious - Sproul

"If you really believe in the doctrines of grace, then you learn how to be gracious."

- R. C. Sproul, Christless Christianity: 2010 West Coast Conference

Democracy antithetical to compulsed welfare - Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

- Thomas Jefferson

Paying of national debts - Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save on-half the wars of the world."

- Thomas Jefferson"

America's future happiness - Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

- Thomas Jefferson"

Freedom and Arms - Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

-Thomas Jefferson

Origins of bad government - Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

-Thomas Jefferson

War and Folly - Pericles

"For those of course who have a free choice in the matter and whose fortunes are not at stake, war is the greatest of follies. But if the only choice was between submission with loss of independence, and danger with the hope of preserving that independence, in such a case it is he who will not accept the risk that deserves blame, not he who will."

- Pericles, c. 428 BC

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Keeping ourselves unspotted - Francis Schaeffer

"Those standing in the stream of historic Christianity have been especially slow to understand the relationships between various areas of thought. When the apostle warned us to 'keep [ourselves] unspotted from the world,' he was not talking of some abstraction. If the Christian is to apply this injunction to himself he must understand what confronts him antagonistically in his own moment of history. Otherwise he simply becomes a useless museum piece and not a living warrior for Jesus Christ." 

- Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There
Contributed by Ryan Thompson

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Freedom Downsized - The New American Century

"The concept of freedom for which so many men had given their lives in the war against the Nazis was slowly transformed and downsized into the concept of freedom of choice in personal shopping."

- The New American Century

Worth watching, especially the last thirty minutes. Gives all new meaning to the words, "where do wars come from?" [James 4:1-5] Be prepared to curb your anger.

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Worlds Unto Ourselves - John Calvin

"If it were not our duty to help one another it would have been necessary for God to make as many worlds as there are men, so that everyone might devote all his attention to himself; but He hath made us fellow workers."

- John Calvin, Mystery of Godliness

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