Where's your heart?Where's the love you talk about?Did someone hold a gun to your head?Who's that girl you laugh about?Did a feeling do you wrong?You've been gone too long.Did you love her?Did you leave her cold?Did you see her through?Or do you only love the ones who [love] like you?
"And you sir are weak; unwilling and unable to look evil in the eye and deal with it."
"Yahweh, YahwehAlways pain before a child is bornYahweh, YahwehStill waiting for the dawn"
"Affections are a gift from God to all humanity. Far too often the faculties have been 'gendered' in the church, for example, when people lump 'rationality' with men and 'emotions' with women. In addition to empirical evidence that easily contradicts such hastily drawn stereotypes, one should reject such schemas because all Christians are called to love God with their mind, will, and affections. Healthy affections are crucial to the life of faith, and numbing them cannot be the answer. In Owen's estimation, because the affections are so important to faithful obedience, Scripture often interchanges the language of heart and affections, for here is 'the principal thing which God requires in our walking before [Him].... Save all other things and lose the heart, and all is lost -lost unto eternity.'The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will. So the path forward is not to decrease one's affections but rather to enlarge them and fill them with 'heavenly things.' Here one is not trying to escape the painful realities of this life but rather endeavoring to reframe one's perspective of life around a much larger canvas that encompasses all of reality. To respond to the distorting nature of sin you must set your affections on the beauty and glory of God, the loveliness of Christ, and the wonder of the gospel: 'Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things... what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have unto our souls?' Resisting sin, according to this Puritan divine, comes not by deadening your affections but by awakening them to God [Himself]. Do not seek to empty your cup as a way to avoid sin, but rather seek to fill it up with the Spirit of life, so there is no longer room for sin."
"I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country [Britain], helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of governmental control. I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservative... But true liberalism is still distinct from conservatism, and there is danger in the two being confused. Conservatism, though a necessary of society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic, and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place. A Conservative movement, by its very nature, is bound to be the defender of established privilege and to lean on the power of government for the protection of privilege. The essence of the liberal position, however, is the denial of all privilege, if privilege is understood in its proper and original meaning of the state granting and protecting rights to some which are not available on equal terms for others."- Friedrich August Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition, ed. Bruce Caldwell (London: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
"Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas."
"You talked too much about Pharaoh, too much about babies and not enough about crocodiles."
