Divorce

1. I do not see any way for divorce to occur, except when there is a lack of love in at least one those involved.
2. Divorce when there are children involved is a form a child abuse. (2/2/12)
1. Divorce is traumatic to children (2/2/12)
2. Doing what is traumatic to children is child abuse. (2/12/12)
3. Divorce rate vs Time Graph
4. "Overall, results indicate that even couples who are very successful at navigating the early years of marriage can be vulnerable to later dissolution if their interpersonal exchanges are poorly regulated." (Journal of Family Psychology, 4/3/12)
5. Divorce rate vs Denomination (10/9/11)
1. National Survey of Families and Households, 1987-8, n = 10,439
1. 52% Black non-active Protestant
2. 49% No religion (e.g., atheist, agnostic) 
3. 46% Black active Protestant
4. 42% Non-active Protestant
5. 41% All non-Christians
6. 40% Non-active Catholic
7. 37% All Christians
8. 34% Non-active other religion
9. 33% All other religion
10. 31% Active other religion
11. 26% Active Protestant
12. 24% Active Catholic
2. National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, 1995-6, n = 3,622
1. 52% No religion (e.g., atheist, agnostic)
2. 47% Black non-active Protestant
3. 45% Non-active Protestant
4. 45% All non-Christians
5. 44% Black active Protestant
6. 39% Non-active other religion
7. 37% All other religion
8. 35% All Christians
9. 35% Non-active Catholic
10. 32% Active other religion
11. 25% Active Protestant
12. 24% Active Catholic

Character

1. "Character is a slowly forming thing. You can no more force character on someone than you can force a tree to produce fruit when it isn't ready to do so. The person has to choose, again and again, to develop the moral muscles and skills which will shape and form the fully flourishing character." - N.T. Wright, After You Believe (1/3/12)
2. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.” -Helen Keller (11/25/12)
3. "Character-- the making and sustaining a character-- is a communal event, not an individual possession."  Real Sex, page 52 (7/31/12)
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Ethics

"… ethics is not about dispensing of cut-and-dried answers to moral questions, but that ethics is a story with meaning and power."  Real Sex, page 52

War on Drugs

"Everyone by now should know that our current war on drugs makes no more sense than alcohol prohibition did in the 1920s." — Ron Paul, Liberty Defined

Tea Party

"...the core values of the tea party movement and our fiscal responsibility, limited federal government, individual liberty and free markets..." -- founder at TheTeaParty.net, Todd Cefaratti 

Homosexual

1. General and LGBT-specific risk factors both uniquely contribute to likelihood of suicidal ideation and self-harm in LGBT youth, which may, in part, account for the higher risk of these phenomena observed in this population.( American Journal of Preventive Medicine Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 221-228, March 2012, 3/3/12)
2. Catholic teaching
1. "The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition." (CCC 2358 3/12/12)
2. “Sexual relations between people of the same sex can be alluring for homosexuals but it deviates from the true meaning of the act and distracts them from the true nature of love to which God has called us all. For this reason, it is sinful,” --Bishop Jaime Soto
3. "The human person, made in the image and likeness of God, can hardly be adequately described by a reductionist reference to his or her sexual orientation. ...Today, the Church provides a badly needed context for the care of the human person when she refuses to consider the person as a "heterosexual" or a "homosexual" and insists that every person has a fundamental Identity: the creature of God, and by grace, his child and heir to eternal life." - Blessed John Paul II. (3/27/13)
3. Study suggesting that change of homosexual orientation appears possible for some
1. Conversion stories
1. Confessions of a recovering lesbian
2. Lisa Miller (Life Site, 2/6/12)
4. Persecution of those who do not support homosexuality.
1. Texas high school student suspended for saying homosexuality is wrong
2.  Suing a 2 B&B s in Illinois for refusing to allow civil union ceremony on their property.
3. Lesbian couple mulls action against Christian wedding cake baker

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Security

"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise." -- Harry Browne

Pelagianism

"It is the belief that original sin did not taint human natureand that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid." -Wikipedia

I accept the first part. I believe that our own sin taints our own nature totally, not just causing guilt and shame but also affecting our emotions, intellect and will. But I do not believe the sin of another, even our ancestor, taints our nature if that is what is meant by original sin. That still seems inherently unjust to me. I, however, reject the second half as humans can not do any thing include exist without special divine aid. Anti-Paganism and the doctrine of Original Sin as they understand comes from a misinteriptation of the story of Adam and Eve as history rather than as myth as it was intended. The ancients all understood the story of Adam and Eve as a myth. When the Bible speaks of our we sin in Adam, it referring to the story of Adam and Eve as a myth is repeated in our live as is the nature of a myths.

Barack Obama

"Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail --regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who  have." --Thomas Sowell  

Catholic

In the last 40 years, the Catholic population has increased by 75 percent; it has grown by 50 percent since 1990. More important, Catholic attendance at Mass is up 15 percent since 2000. And in the last five years, contributions have increased by 14 percent. 

Ignorance

"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." — Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

Work

1. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." ---  Confucius 
2. The chief advantage of work is it keeps one from  being self-absorbed. (1/11/12)
3. "It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." — Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
4. Adam and Eve went from to garners to tellers of the soil after the fall.
5. The more one works, the more willing one is to work. -Lord Chesterfield (8/4/11) 

Thinking

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things." — Ray Bradbury

Law

1.  "It is not a question of law or love, but law conceived in love, love expressed in law. The two are a unity." -Jon Levenson
2. "Each and every time someone says 'there ought to be a law' they are saying that men with guns should enforce their will on innocent others." -- Michael Barnett (7/26/11)

Self-Control

1. "self-control is a finite commodity that is depleted by use." (Science Daily 6/7/12)
1. "self-control to be like a muscle. Hedgcock says his images seem to suggest that it's like a pool that can be drained by use then replenished through time in a lower conflict environment, away from temptations that require its use."  (Science Daily 6/7/12)
2. Factors that Decrease self-control (3/9/12)
1. Rumination (3/9/12)
3. Lack of Self control is associated with: (3/9/12)
1. Aggression (3/9/12)
2. Obesity (Science Daily 8/17/12)
3. Less future success (3/9/12)
1. Kids' Self-Control Is Crucial for Their Future Success (Scientific American, 7/27/11)

Adventure

1. "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." -G. K. Chesterton (11/15/12)
2. The only people who want more adventure in their life are those who never had a real adventure or are adrenaline addicts.

Extramarital Sex

1. "Having sex with someone who isn’t our spouse can have a real, measurable and harmful impact upon later relationships." FOCUSinsights (6/29/13)
2. Why is there so much surprise about someone who engages in extramarital sex before marriage engaging in extramarital sex after marriage? (7/24/11)

Premarital Sex

The term "premarital sex" is a misnomer. It euphemistically implies having sex with someone before marrying them, however, more often than not those who have "premarital sex" never wind up marrying those with whom they have it. The other problem is that the opposite of premarital sex would seem to be postmarital sex but not all postmarital sex is good. If man has sex with his mistress after marrying his wife, he could be said to be having postmarital sex. I, therefore, prefer the term extramarital sex.

Gnosticism

"… the idea, popular since the days of ancient Greece, that the body, and all matter, were evil, and only the soul was good and pure and true."  Real Sex, page 34

Sex

1. "...the heart of the Christians story about sex is a vigorously positive statement: sex was created for marriage." Real Sex, page 25
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3. (7/31/11) "Sex, like any other necessary, precious, and volatile power that is commonly held, is everybody's business."  Wendell Berry
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5. "… sex is my business because sex can lead to babies, and the society that Roxanne and I share has a best did interest in the defining and maintaining the family structures that care for babies." Real Sex, p. 49
6. "Emotional closeness during sex was associated with more frequent arousal, lubrication, and orgasm; estrogen therapy was not." (1/2/12)

Chastity

"...chastity like most aspects of Christian life does not come naturally..."  Real Sex, page 22

Attention

Attention is used as a poor substitute for those he did not feel love or respect.
(8/3/11) Those who don't feel loved seek respect. Those who don't feel loved or respected seek attention.

Hate

1. Hate is not the opposite of love. Hate is a part of love. If you love something you will hate whatever stands between you and what you love. If a woman is in love with a married man she will hate his wife. If you love the truth, you will hate dishonesty. If you love God, you will hate sin. If you love justice, you will hate injustice. The only way not to hate is not to love. You can tell what you love by what you hate. (5/12/13)
2. "If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar...." 1 John 4:20 NIV (7/24/11)

Temple

"man becomes God's temple, as God is man's temple."  The Lamb's Supper, page 152

Family

1. "God in His deepest mystery is not a solitude, but a family, since he has in Himself fatherhood, sonship, and the essence of the family, which is love."-John Paul II (7/24/11)
2. Meals
1. ‎"Studies have shown that family meals have a positive effect on children, especially adolescents. Children who eat with their families more than five times a week do better in school, have higher self-esteem, and are less likely to engage in risky behaviors. Researchers believe this is due to the emotional bond formed during meals. Something about being around the table helps children make life-affirming choices." (Becky Warren, 2/15/12)

Progress

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
-C.S. Lewis

Bias

We  all have bias and those who are most biased often can not see their own bias.

The National Dept

(8/5/11) 
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” -Thomas Jefferson


(7/27/11) The national debt is like a credit card that we spend on wasteful things and that our children will be forced to pay the interest on for the rest of their lives. To me raising the debt ceiling is just plain immoral. 


We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. -- Ronald Reagan



(7/24/11)  A study performed by the Congressional Budget Office suggests that the federal debt will hit 100% of GDP by 2023 and 800% by 2083.

Socialism

1. “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all." -Frederic Bastiat (3/22/12)
2. "There are two places where socialism will work: in Heaven, where it is not needed; and Hell, where they already have it." -- Winston Churchill

Television

I love potato chips but I would fill my stomach with them so why fill your mind on an evening of television.
(8/16/11) Reduces life expectancy.

The Crusades and Inquestions

I continue to believe in the Christianity and the Church despite the crusades and Inquisitions the same way I continue to believe in science and medicine despite the atomic bomb, the Nazi doctors experiments and abortion. The same way I continue to believe in America despite slavery and our treatment of the American Indians.

Life

Some tell us to live every day as if it where our last. I say live each day as if yesterday where your last, that live as if you where already dead. In death our soul will leave our body and we will have no use for and therefor no concern for physical things. The only thing that will matter in death is spiritual things and we shall therefor seek spiritual things now.


(7/27/11) "Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other." -Malcolm Muggeridge. 

Holy

1. “Holiness does not consist in never having erred or sinned. Holiness increases the capacity for conversion, for repentance, for willingness to start again and, especially, for reconciliation and forgiveness. … And we can all learn this way of holiness.” – Pope Benedict XVI (8/1/13)
2. Definitions
1. Holy means separate or other.
2. "To be holy is to be set apart for a divine purpose, to be set apart for God" -Scott Hanh, Signs of Life" p. 46 (11/13/12)

Govermrnt

(7/22/11) Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough  to take away everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson


(7/28/11) 

"That government is best which governs least." - Thomas Paine

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or 
unbuckled seat belts ever have." -- P.J. O'Rourke


(8/4/11)  "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
--Voltaire


"See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals." -- Frédéric Bastiat


(8/8/11) "The supply of government exceeds the demand." -- Lewis H. Lapham


(8/15/11) 
‎"The state is inherently evil because it is funded and empowered through theft and coercion. An institution that claims a monopoly on violence and the legal right to extort wealth from other human beings is never legitimate, no matter what it professes to accomplish." -- Justin Stout

Myth

1. The ancient Greeks had two ways of knowing and describing things thing called mythos and logos. Logos has to do with logic and analytic whys of knowledge. Mythos describes things that cannot be described by logos. Its stories may or may not have actually happened in history but its real meaning is in explaining repetive events that happens to all of us. They describes deep psychological characteristics which is why the writings of Jung and May are full of examples from mythology. They are associated with rituals.
2. “For most modern critics a myth is merely another word for a lie or a falsehood, something which is intrinsically not true. For Tolkien, myth had virtually the opposite meaning. It was the only way that certain transcendent truths could be expressed in intelligible form. One has to understand this to understand Tolkien. It is hoped that this volume will go some way to removing the falsehoods and revealing the myth.” —Joseph Pearce (12/6/12)
3. “Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― G.K. Chesterton (1/2/12)

Equility

1. "There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal." -- F.A. Hayek
2. “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” ― Milton Friedman (10/12/11)

Atheism

All atheists are fundamentalist, because atheist have nothing beyond the fundamental belief that there is no god to go to.


(7/20/11) For the most part I agree with atheist in that I do not believe in the god that they do not believe in.

Fundamentalist

     The word "fundamentalist" contains the word "fundamental" as its root. A fundamentalist can therefor be defined as  one who stresses the fundamentals. Not only religions, but all fields have certain beleifs and practices that are fundamental to them and therefor have potential fundamentalist. The word "fundamentalist" has recently received a negative connotation but being a fundamentalist is not inherently bad. In fact, being a fundamentalist can be a good thing. Whenever we start anything we should start by learning the fundamentals. My high school football coach was a fundamentalist. He believed the fundamentals of football where blocking and tackling and he did not let us start scrimmages until we mastered the fundamentals. In order to master a given field we must practice the fundamentals until they become a part of who we are as they are engraved on our neuronal circuits. There is nothing more beautiful than watching a dancer, who has mastered the fundamentals of a style of dance, let go with reckless abandon and let the fundamentals she has taken years to instill take over. 
          There are, however, potential problems with being a fundamentalist.  One is they can become stuck on the fundamentals and refuse to grow beyond them. For example, a pianist who continues to play the same scales over and over again and refuses to play any music even after mastering the scales. 
       Another problem is choosing the wrong fundamentals. The essential nature of any group of fundamentalist is dependent on the fundamentals they chose. If they chose love and peace than they will become a more loving and peaceful group the more radical fundamentalists they become. Take for example the Amish. They are certainly as an extreme a group of fundamentalist as you can get, but when their young children where raped and killed, they not only forgave their killer but took up a collection for his family. This is because one of their Christian fundamentals is forgiveness. The opposite, however, would happen for a group that had the opposite fundamentals. Some people support their bigoted view against all fundamentalist based on some fundamentalist groups that seem to have made hate and revenge their fundamentals.

Democracy

(8/4/11)
‎"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men." -- George E. MacDonald 


‎"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." - Benjamin Franklin


(8/2/11) In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. -James Madison


(7/18/11) Democracy is 51% voting to use the government to take from the other 49%.


(7/22/11) The truth is not something you can discover through an democratic election.

The Self

There are three selves in each of us:

1. The essential self- This is the good person we where created as and intended by our creator to become. It is the self should strive to know and become in being true to our self. This is the self reffed in the parable of the Prodigal Son when it says that he "came to himself." It was created by God to love and be loved by and receives its identity from God alone.
2. The existential self- This is us as we actually are and which has fallen short of the essential self to various degrees by loving Gods good gifts more than God. The existential self receives its identity from all these things that it loves more than God.
3. The false self- This is a false representation of our self that we create and try to convince others that we are and may even convince ourselves that we are. The False self helps us deal with the guilt and shame that is caused by the existential self failing to live up to being the essential self. It consist of the hypocrisy and lies we tell others andourself and even God. The farther the existential self from the essential self the farther the existential self from the false self. The false self can not only cause us to lose sight of the existential self but also the essential self. When we have lost sight of the essential self than we are hopelessly lost without God. When the false self loses sight of the essential self than it tries to find itself by comparing itself to others interms of the false gods the existential self created. For example the false self may say it is rich or poor, fat or thin etc. In comparing itself to others it tries to make others look worse to make itself look better. The false self in being a false entity does not have a true identity.

Beauty

1. “The Beautiful is that which gives joy, not all joy, but joy in knowing; not the joy proper to the act of knowing, but a joy abounding and overflowing from this act because of the object known. If a thing uplifts and delights the Soul by the very fact of being granted to its intuition, it is good to lay hold of, it is beautiful.” -Jacques Maritain  (12/13/12)
2. Beauty is complexity expressed in its simplest form.
3. Rule # 61: Initially there is a superficial form of love that loves because it perceives beauty, but with hope true love develops and perceives beauty because it loves. (FB 8/18/12)
4. Truth is like beauty. You know it when you see it. (6/12)
5. "To love beauty is to see light." - Les Misérables (11/14/12)

Poverty

‎"[Mother Teresa's] entire analysis of poverty was that God does not create poverty; man does, because he won't share." - Mary Poplin


(8/11/11) ‎"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice." -- Harry Browne

Sin

1. Kierkegaard defines sin as building your identy on anything other than God.
2. "Sin is not who we are. It is who we are not." (Catholic Standard 2/16/12)
3. "In order for something to be considered a sin, you must know before committing the act that it is indeed a sinful act." - Deacon Greg (2/21/12)

Mass

"the Mass is 'heaven on earth'" Scott Hahn, "The Lamb's Supper" page 118

Addiction

An addiction is when a habit causes you to lose your free will over a certain aspect of your life.

(7/27/11) "We know that 40 percent of a predisposition to addiction is genetically determined, via studies on heritability in families and twins."

Codependency

Codependency is being addicted to another person.

Original Sin

I believe the the doctrine of original sin can be summed up in the following three words:

"All have sinned"

Revalation

God reveals Himself to us in the following in order of increasing authority:

1. All of nature
2. The church
3. The Bible
4. Jesus Christ

God is logical and His revelation does not contain contradictions. We must internet Gods revaluations so there are no contradictions.

Bible

1. "If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself." — St. Augustine of Hippo
1. I would say that If you believe what you like in Bible and reject what you don't like, it is not God you believe in but yourself. You have made yourself the ultimate authority and therefor have put yourself above God. Your god is not the God of the Bible but you have made yourself your god.

Post-Abortion Trauma

Symptoms

1. Bouts of crying
2. Depression
3. Guilt
4. Inability to forgive yourself
5. Intense grief / sadness
6. Anger / rage
7. Emotional numbness
8. Sexual problems or promiscuity
9. Eating disorders
10. Lowered self esteem
11. Drug and alcohol abuse
12. Nightmares and sleep disturbances
13. Suicidal urges
14. Difficulty with relationships
15. Anxiety and panic attacks
16. Flashbacks
17. Multiple abortions
18. Pattern of repeat crisis pregnancy
19. Discomfort around babies or pregnant women
20. Fear / ambivalence of pregnancy

Examples

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8CxUtAKnxk&feature=player_embedded
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKe14jtpbbY
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N74l0Z2HeY
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRptVzdTmnc&feature=player_embedded
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvz_cmbOvT4
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVQ4kYoeHM&feature=player_embedded#at=108
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_k8m2dCxg&feature=player_embedded#at=65
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHfVJqRGOA&NR=1
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5YywVy95xg
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzTUVvQgp4g&feature=related
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QydN0TjnIrw
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjiKxzfuB5Y

Leadership

• Bad leaders lead governments, but good leaders lead revolutions.
• (7/16/11) Bad leaders motivate others to follow them through fear, but good leaders motivate others to follow them through love.
• Bad leaders want to be respected by their followers, but good leaders want to be loved by their followers.

Justice

1. Definition (1/8/13)
1. "giving others what they are due"- Bill Donohue (1/8/14)
2. It is as unjust to treat differently who are the same as it is to treat those the same who are different. (7/8/11)
1. "Equals should be treated equally, and unequals unequally, in proportion to relevant similarities and differences" - Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics)  (4/15/13)
3. ‎"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured, are as indignant as those who are." - Thucydides (2/4/12)

Free Will

1. Free will is like a conscience in that if you have it you can not doubt its existence. (1/30/13)
2. If you don't believe in free will than you believe that you have no choice in what you believe, but if you are forced to believe what you believe then why believe it? (7/6/11)
3. Biblical proof (12/3/12)
1.  "the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat" (10/24/12)
2. "This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live" Deuteronomy 30:19 (2/14/13)
3. Joshua 24:15 New International Version (NIV) "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” (12/3/12)
4. Free will versus Predestination
1. The history of intellectual disputes are often posed as this versus that.  For example nature versus nurture or weight versus particle.  Both sides present evidence for their position.  History shows that the final outcome is not either one side but both.  This is the case for Faith versus predisposition.  It is not a more predisposition but both legs and predisposition.there are some things that are pre-destined and there are other things that are of our own free will choose.

Imperialism

Imperialism is inherently racists for even in its most charitable disguise it is based on the belief that one race can govern another race better than they can govern themselves

The Kingdom of God

1. "...the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:21
2. "The Kingdom of righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." Hanah Whital Smith (The God of All Comfort) (7/9/11) 
3. The Church is truly the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (11/29/11)

Respect

1. There are two kings of respect. There is a respect that comes from love and there is a respect thst comes from fear. (8/3/11)
2. Respect vs Love
1. "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) (8/3/11) i.e. Those who don't feel loved try to feel respected.
2. (7/16/11) Respect is obtained through power. Love is obtained through love.
3. You can demand respect but you can only offer love and hope for love in return.
4. Respect is conditional. Love is unconditional

War

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

In their madness they seek war believing that war will bring them peace.

(7/16/11) There will only be wars if there are solders willing to fight them.


(7/20/11) “The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.” - George Orwell in "1984"