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It is always the secure who are humble.

[T]he essence of Christianity was in a literal sense the New Testament — a covenant with God which opened to...

posted on: Jan 13, 2011 | author: Alan Burrow

The instinct of mankind against pride.

[T]he instinct of mankind against pride, as the ultimate human evil, can be proved from the most prosaic details or...

posted on: Jan 6, 2011 | author: Alan Burrow

The way to love anything.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, p. 56, quoted in...

posted on: Nov 12, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Love your neighbor

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same...

posted on: Nov 9, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Natural affection, a stronger angel and a fiercer ...

There’s something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite...

posted on: Nov 3, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Perfect love casts out fear, but so do several oth...

Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear.  But so do several other things — ignorance, alcohol, passion,...

posted on: Nov 2, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Don’t waste time bothering whether you ̶...

The rule for all of us is perfectly simple.  Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your...

posted on: Nov 1, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

He made bad and good rulers very much alike.

Otto Scott on Machiavelli, who was in many ways the father of modern politics: Machiavelli rationalized despotism,...

posted on: Oct 27, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with yo...

The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with you.  He will inform you of your ignorance; he will not enlighten...

posted on: Oct 26, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

They cannot convince the mind, but they do cloud i...

Just as it is the latest fad [of Freudian psychoanalysis] to prove that everything is sexual, so it was the last fad...

posted on: Oct 25, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

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