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It then belongs to princes to know how far they may extend their authority, and to subjects in what they may obey them . . . .   —Junius Brutus, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) Temporal authority is ...

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” —Obi-Wan Kenobi Freedom and Nature Discussions about liberty have to begin with definitions and of course, include reference points.  After all, no one is free to do anything and everything that they want to ...

Want. Take. Have. —Faith, “Bad Girls,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999) Come, thou long expected Jesus / Born to set Thy people free. — Charles Wesley, “Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (1744) But what’s the real problem no ...

There are a variety of definitions of freedom. Most often people confuse freedom with license, or more particularly licentiousness. They assume that their personal wants and desires can be pursued without boundary or at least as long as they are ...

It is unnecessary to point out that all the great religions hold the view that the essence of man and the essence of God are one and the same. —Colin Wilson, The Occult: A History (1971)  The dominant tenet of ...

The plea for Christians to surrender to neutrality in their thinking is not an uncommon one.  —Greg Bahnsen, Always Ready (1996)  Man neither is nor can be “objective” and “impartial.”  All his thinking is from some fundamental starting point or ...

Christians are only giving at 2.5 percent per capita, while during the Great Depression they gave at a 3.3 percent rate. —Mike Holmes, “What Would Happen if the Church Tithed?” (2013)  The Bible sets forth tithing as the principal means ...

There are two “cities” in which men on earth may live.  They must in fact live in one or the other. —Roderick Campbell, Israel and the New Covenant (1954) By night and alone Nehemiah surveyed the broken walls of Jerusalem.  ...

With an economy of words, the story-teller transports his listeners to a fabulous oriental world, and to a time when the Persian Empire was still young. —Joyce Baldwin, Esther (1984) Prelude to Genocide The king of Persian declared a sixth ...

In a unique way Zechariah is one of the most important books in the Old Testament. —Charlie Brown, Peanuts (1994)  All areas of life will be consecrated to the Lord:  even the horses’ bells will contain the inscription written on ...