John Wesley once looked his mother in the eye and asked a massive question. “Mother,” he said, “can you give me a definition for sin?” That brilliant woman who raised two giants in the faith—John, the preacher, and Charles, the great hymnist—said this: “Son, whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures [...]
A news reporter once asked Deion Sanders why he chose to become a Christian. Deion responded:
“It happened the night we won the Super Bowl. I just finished ordering my Lamborghini and I lay there in bed thinking every goal I had ever attempted had now been reached. Yet I was emptier than ever before. That [...]
Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends.
Can we be quite so certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, [...]
Solipsism
Nothing exists; Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others. - Gorgias (485-375 BC)
Solipsism is the idea that one can only know that one’s self exists and that anything outside the mind, such as the external word, [...]
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things the beauty, the memory of our own past are good images of what we really [...]