Justice

by | Jul 11, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“When the Bible speaks of God’s justice, it is talking about the creator’s utter determination, faced with his creation in a mess, to put it all right. When it speaks of God’s love, it is talking about the creator entering into a ‘covenant’, a close personal...

Democracy

by | Jul 10, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“Ironically, many intellectual elites—then and now—seem to regard themselves as promoting a more democratic society, when they preempt other people’s decisions. Their conception of democracy seems to be equalization of outcomes, by intellectual elites. This would...

Voucher Blockade

by | Jul 9, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“Having taught in public schools for 28 years, I think I have heard every self-serving argument against school choice. The most revealing one came from a local school principal. This career educrat argued that vouchers were a bad idea because families would grab the...

Implanting Evil

by | Jul 8, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach the evildoers, we are not simply protecting their...

Light

by | Jul 7, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

God calls us to be lights to the world, but this is a metaphor about effect, not source. The point of the light is not that it might be admired but that it reveals. – E.O.