Category Archives: Quotations

Bill Zeller’s Suicide Note

Posted on January 7, 2011 by PaulVK

This was sent to me by a friend. It appeared on Gizmodo. In the note Bill Zeller, who I never knew or heard of before I read the note gives permission to republish as long as it is published in … Continue reading →

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Politics and Culture blog post by Tim Keller

Posted on December 12, 2010 by PaulVK

Wonderful Piece: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2010/12/03/politics-and-culture/ Here’s a paragraph from it. Hunter argues that ressentiment–”a narrative of injury”–has now come to define American political discourse. Both conservatives and liberals make their sense of injury central to their identity, and therefore in each election cycle … Continue reading →

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The Everlastingness of Us

Posted on December 2, 2010 by PaulVK

This is from CS Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” from the chapter on “The Three Parts of Morality”. Again, Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there … Continue reading →

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Leadership

Posted on November 13, 2010 by PaulVK

From Kenneth Bailey’s “Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes” In the concluding decades of the last century the late Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan. Many unforgettable stories circulate orally around the Middle East about the king. I first heard … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Bailey on Jesus’ Journey Through Jericho

Posted on September 14, 2010 by PaulVK

This from Kenneth Bailey’s “Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes”. Bailey sees the union of the story of Jesus healing the blind man with the story of Jesus inviting himself to Zacchaeus’ house. He sees the crowd’s initial irritation at the … Continue reading →

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3 Doctrinal emphases essential to both liberalism and the Mormon world view

Posted on September 4, 2010 by PaulVK

This from Richard Mouw’s lecture given at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the CRC. He found this comment from a Mormon scholar who was complaining that recently some Mormon scholars were beginning to sound a … Continue reading →

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Self-righteousness

Posted on August 11, 2010 by PaulVK

One of my favorite Tim Keller sermons is one on Romans 7 entitled Splitness where he makes extensive use of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Here is the part of the book … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis on Our Problem

Posted on June 25, 2010 by PaulVK

From the Problem of Pain, the chapter on The Fall of Man Someone or something whispered that they could become as gods—that they could cease directing their lives to their Creator and taking all their delights as uncovenanted mercies, as … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis clarifies Christian Morality in terms of immortality

Posted on April 15, 2010 by PaulVK

Again, from Mere Christianity. The chapter on Morality and Psychoanalysis And that leads on to my second point. People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, if you keep a lot of rules … Continue reading →

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Lewis on the consequences of human immortality

Posted on April 15, 2010 by PaulVK

From Mere Christianity from the chapter on Three Parts of Morality Again, Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things … Continue reading →

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