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As men became increasingly weak and needy thye turned to religion. (pp. 54-55) Driving force for religion was fear "Fear mad for division rather than for community" (p. 56) Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars

I remember an old story about a little boy who was out helping dad with the yard work. Dad asked him to pick up the rocks in a certain area of the yard. Dad looked over and saw him struggling to pull up a huge rock buried in the dirt. The little boy struggled and struggled while Dad watched. Finally,…

The dispostion of sin is not immorality and wrong-doing, but the disposition of self-realization-I am my own god. This disposition may work out in decorous morality or in indecorous immorality, but it has the one basis, my claim to my right to myself. unknown

It is no good passing this over with some vague, general admission such as “Of course, I know I have my faults.” It is important to realize that there is some really fatal flaw in you: something which gives the others just that same feeling of despair which their flaws give you. And it is almost certainly…

"It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." -- Corrie ten Boom (collected from ministers' meeting @ CSC -- 102907)