“From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.” PeopleAbsolutesRedemptionAppealsRefugeTreasonLatent Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays) Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” PeopleMenWayJobsJusticeSinExistenceHe ManPrayingAbsolutesMysteriousRedemptionSpokesDoubtedMysterious Ways Book:Night Source: Night
“The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.” JesusChristSinHolyTruth IsAuthorityNewsJesus ChristAbsolutesConvictionRedemptionGood NewsSubmissionBad News Author:Charles Colson
“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.” StillsLife IsMoralClassCitizensGoodnessOrdinaryAbsolutesSavedRedemptionJournalistRepublicElitesIncapableDegradationRelativismDiscerningGildedOrdinary CitizensSophistryMoral RelativismDerelictChardonnay Author:Charles Dickens
“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.” MeanHas BeensDiesAcceptingOughtAbsolutesPhilosophicalOneselfPhilosopherRedemptionAcknowledgeOutcomesMortalityResurrectionPlatoPositive Outcome Author:Jacques Derrida