History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind
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Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
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Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of
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What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
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The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
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Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
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The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.
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Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
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As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
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Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.
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In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.
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If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth.. Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?
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Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
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Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
Work done by non-Christians always contain some degree of God's common grace as well as the distortions of sin. Work done by Christians, even if it overtly names the name of Jesus is also to a significant degree distorted by sin.
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When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.
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