There is an order or hierarchy of loves such that all things that deserve our love deserve it in proportion to their excellence: “Hence, as it seems to me, a brief and true definition of virtue is rightly ordered love” (Augustine, City 637)
-Alan Jacobs
Overheard two kids at IKEA, exchanging views on books of the New Testament.
The girl said she was bored with the book of Hebrews.
Why, blimey. And here’s to me thinking that children had childlike wonder.
So I guess I wouldn’t wish to become a child after all.
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"The chief priests’ response represents the cold, dark world we enter should we ever turn away from Christ. It is a harsh, unkind world that doesn’t care if you fall and refuses to help lift you up. It is the world of you’re-on-your-own. A graceless world of pride and despair."
6. “Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world.”
Commit fully to something you can’t prove in advance.
That’s what creators, entrepreneurs, and anyone chasing a vision does.
You bet on yourself before the results are visible.