“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.” – Orson Welles
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Silent Night is probably the most cherished and beloved Christmas carol sung around the world. Next to Holy Night (Night Divine) and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing it is my favorite Christmas song to sing. Even in the midst of yearly new Christmas music and a kaleidoscope of musical styles, Silent Night, sung in it’s [...]

Love can forbear, and love can forgive… but love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object… He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin in and of itself is incapable of being altered; but he may be reconciled to your person, because that may be restored.

The new rebel is a Skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern [...]

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it [...]