September 2011
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Humility in Conversations
People might look at me and think I am a humble guy, but that isn’t really true.I just keep a lot of things to myself.
One of the things I have been struggling to learn is to have humility in conversations. It is really hard for me to care about what someone is talking about if I don’t find the topic interesting. The thing is I do care about people, I want them to feel loved, I want...
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is...
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be...
– John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”
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Under God but we kill like the son of Sam but if you feel like I feel about the...
– Flobots
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Those of us on the liberty-loving side of things are often confused with the...
– Kevin Smith, The Heartless Compassion of Big Government (via redemptionandliberty)
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It is the feeling of many, especially of many young people, that to be free...
– John Howard Yoder, “The Christian’s Declaration of Independence,” Christian Living, July 1955 (via flagless)
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That’s the first sign you know you’re a libertarian. You see the red light. You...
– Gary Johnson (via laliberty)
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It’s not appropriate for Kingdom people to either support or revolt against...
– Greg Boyd paraphrasing Jacques Ellul
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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
– C.S. Lewis | via feerawr-me (via quote-book)
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One of the most popular objections to the free society: that “it leaves people...
– Murray Rothbard, “Man, Economy, and State” (via polymurphism)
I posted this the other day…but now I just want to point out that it goes along with what Ron Paul was trying to say about healthcare in the debate the other night.
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The Kingdom Jesus established is anarchistic in that it recognizes God alone as...
– Greg Boyd
love this.
(via haereticum)
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The Gospel is concerned with the kingdom of God and only with the kingdom of...
– David Alan Black, Christian Archy (via haereticum)
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Murder is the gravest crime man commits; yet war is murder multiplied by the...
– Ezra Heywood (1829-1893)
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Personally I don’t like the term anarchy, simply because it means without ruler.
I am the ruler of myself, for the cause of Christ.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
– St. Augustine
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This is one of the great truths that human beings do not yet seem to know, that...
– Robert LeFevre
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One of the most popular objections to the free society: that “it leaves...
– Murray Rothbard, “Man, Economy, and State”
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind,...
– Ammon Hennacy (via flagless)
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The stories in Genesis had a context within which they were first understood....
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Peter Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation
Fantastic read if you are anything like me and have wrestled with the Old Testament text ever since you were in high school.
(via existtheblog)
Another book to put on my list.
(via kre-do)
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It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced...
– Hayek, F. A.; Bruce Caldwell (2010-10-22). The Road to Serfdom (pp. 217-218). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.