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Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

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Guy de MaupassantCollected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things...

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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your fam...

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Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

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We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards o...

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Stephen Jay GouldThe Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

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Walter IsaacsonAmerican Sketches: Great Leaders

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called...

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In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outca...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding t...

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Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the presen...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body an...

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Wendell BerryThe Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predic...

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Wendell BerryThe Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind....

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Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wa...

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How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he ke...

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