by E.O. | Mar 2, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the...
by E.O. | Mar 1, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
We often resign ourselves to the habitual sins of our loved ones, compelled by the demands of grace. Sometimes these habitual sins are sins of obliviousness. Most people, if they understood they were sinning, would strive to do otherwise. But exhortation may well be...
by E.O. | Feb 28, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“‘The time has come’ the Walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax— of cabbages—and kings— and why the sea is boiling hot— and whether pigs have wings.’” – Lewis Carroll (Tweedledee & Tweedledum to...
by E.O. | Feb 27, 2025 | Predestination
Sometimes it seems that Calvinists confuse Calvinism with fatalism. Fatalism has its roots in Greek mythology. The Greeks had three goddesses, the Fates, who determined human destinies. Clotho spun the thread of fate; Lachesis measured the length of the thread; and...
by E.O. | Feb 27, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“If one could plausibly explain how an absolutely libertarian act, obedient to no prior rationale whatsoever, would be distinguishable from sheer chance, or a mindless organic or mechanical impulse, and so any more ‘free’ than an earthquake or embolism, then the...
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