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Friday 14 July 2017

Quotes 15 Jul 17

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.- Jeremy Taylor

"It is a well-known fact that revolutions are not conducted from below by the people, but from above, in the name of the people, by an aspiring elite.”- Roger Scruton

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, he will not now forsake you because you are low.   John Flavel

"The [contemporary secular] university, instead of transmitting culture, exists to deconstruct it, to remove its “aura,” and to leave the student, after four years of intellectual dissipation, with the view that anything goes and nothing matters." -- Roger Scruton explains how we got here and what to do about it: reverse course!

“He sustains, nourishes, and cares for everything he has made, even to the least sparrow.” John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

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