When the pain comes, you know what I do? I smile.
We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live.
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.