Apothegms and Observations LIII

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  1. All truth is God’s truth. All goodness is God’s goodness. All beauty is God’s beauty. Everything is God’s, and everything comes from God.
  2. The two great enemies: Nietzsche and Machiavelli.
  3. Do you understand how thoroughly lost the world is?
  4. I’ve found that living as if God is real is very hard.
  5. I have a past, I have a tradition, I have a school, I have a heritage.
  6. Our innermost thoughts and desires are known to the Lord of Hosts.
  7. The Incompleteness Theorem shows that Truth is irreducible.
  8. War is the worst of all necessary things.
  9. Wisdom is sometimes impolite.
  10. Do more than you say.
  11. As often as you can, celebrate the good actions and agree with the true statements of your enemies.
  12. No one fully comprehends how particularly blessed they are.
  13. It is a strange thing to assume that purchasing a product from a company equates to agreement with the beliefs of the leadership of that company.
  14. It is very dangerous to enlist a friend to affirm your bitterness.
  15. It is a strange thing to ask a person who has chosen to follow one religion to commend another.
  16. Telling someone a secret is placing a burden upon them.
  17. Gossip is still sin.
  18. I fear the infinite reassurers.
  19. Truly, God is the director of human affairs.
  20. If the Way of Jesus is called weak, then so be it. I will be weak.
  21. Shakespeare’s characters showed me what it looks like to Act.
  22. Hatred is the fruit; envy is the seed.
  23. Never belittle another.
  24. It is a strange thing to assume that the cool kids have understanding.
  25. Spiritual maturity is neither gullible nor naive.
  26. What does it mean that love believes all things, and what does it not mean?
  27. If you are too busy to be with God, then you are simply too busy.
  28. God loves excellence.
  29. Complaining that only women have to go through pregnancy—this is murmuring against God.
  30. A life of mocking is empty and hollow.

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