“I think the internet is the friend of information but the enemy of thought" ~ Tim Keller http://sumo.ly/Ezec
I cannot think of the one without being encircled by the splendour of the three, nor can I discern the three without straightway being carried back to the one. - Gregory of Nazianzus in Calvin Institutes, I.13.17
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them but to cleanse them. -John Hill Aughey (1828-1911)
“in order to incorporate as large and wide number of people as possible it is necessary to come up with a definition of inclusion that is as wide and unobjectionable as possible. If Europe is going to become a home for the world it must search for a definition of itself that is wide enough to encompass the world. This means that in the period before this aspiration collapses our values become so wide as to become meaninglessly shallow. So whereas European identity in the past could be attributed to highly specific, not to mention philosophically and historically deep foundations (the rule of law, the ethics derived from the continent’s history and philosophy), today the ethics and belief of Europe – indeed the identity and ideology of Europe – have become about ‘respect’, ‘tolerance’ and (most self abrogating of all) ‘diversity’. Such shallow self definitions may get us through a few more years, they have no chance at all being able to call on the deeper loyalties that societies must be able to reach if they are going to survive for long.” Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe P.7
A crown
Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns.
Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights
To him who wears the regal diadem.- John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book II, line 458.
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