Politics, government, media, technology, and public affairs; criticism of the modern age and its institutions. A claim about society at large, not any quote that mentions the world.
- Disagreeability of Beards C. S. Lewis
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly …
- As If the World Were All John Owen
Men walk and talk as if the world were all, when comparatively it is nothing.
- Al Mohler on the Church and Marriage Al Mohler
The U.S. Supreme Court may well decide the future of marriage as a legal institution, but the church must hold to marriage as far more, but not less than, a legal …
- Not a Thought in Her Head George Orwell
She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan.
- Churchly Trendiness David Wells
Today’s churchly trendiness is really yesterday’s unbelief.
- Lacking Fellowship? Rosaria Butterfield
At least as it regard the handful of families that showed immediate excitement and then after a month changed heart, this is what ’lacking fellowship’; means. It means …
- Great Men and their Mothers Benjamin Morgan Palmer
It may well be questioned if history reveals a single instance of a truly great man who had a fool for his mother.
- John Fesko on Christian Liberty John Fesko
If we are to excel in the next twenty-five years, we must hold fast to the biblical doctrine of Christian liberty as part of the greater whole of the Reformed system of …
- Dabney on Submission to the Past Robert Lewis Dabney
We shall be wise, therefore, if we harken to the striking instruction if these instances, and make it our method to submit with modesty to the sober teachings of the past …
- Beer and Reformation Carl Trueman
Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on …
- Theology Bores Christians Richard Phillips
Theology bores today’s Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.
- Good Ol' Days The Teacher
‘Say not, Why were the former days better than these?’ For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
- Mencken on Professors and Theories H. L. Mencken
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
- The Invisible Mosaic Wendell Berry
All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not …
- Splendors of a National Government Luther Martin
Happiness is preferable to the Splendors of a national Government.
- Cult of Ignorance Isaac Asimov
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our …
- Offenseless Christianity Dorothy Sayers
I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it.
- Madness of People Isaac Newton
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
- Music as a Marvelous Creation Martin Luther
A person who gives this some thought and yet does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human …
- If God Were Indeed a Human Projection Herman Bavinck
If ‘God’ were indeed a human projection or creation, a human effort to explain reality now known to us via science, or a means of providing security, comfort, and …
- Employment Outside the Home Wendell Berry
I do not belive that ’employment outside the home’ is as valuable or important or satisfying as employment at home, for either men or women.
- Wendell Berry on the Influence of TV Wendell Berry
By television and other public means, we are encouraged to believe that we are far advanced beyond sitting till bedtime with the neighbors on a Kentucky ridgetop.
- Jane Austen on Boys and Girls Jane Austen
It would be , could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of …
- Defilement of Processed Food Robert Wolke
It seems that some people take the word refined as an indication that we humans have somehow defied the law of Nature by having the audacity to remove some undesirable …
- Einstein on the Expected Chaos Albert Einstein
Well, a priori, one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by mind in any way. There in lies the weakness of the positivists and professional atheists.
- Institutions Controlling our Chidren's Lives John Taylor Gatto
Two institutions currently control our children’s lives: television and schooling, in that order.
- America's Answer to Intractable Problems Neil Postman
America’s answer to any intractable problem is schools.
- Extreme Mental Modesty G.K. Chesterton
We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.