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C.S Lewis said it best!....(vanity)
Monday January 3, 2010
Posted on 01/03/2011 9:49:33 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike
One of my all time favorite quotes.
Another from Lewis
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:52:34 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Bigtigermike
Ha! My bad! I’m still living in 2010!
To: Bigtigermike
The most dangerous phrase in the English Language — “There oughtta be a law....”
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01/03/2011 9:53:56 AM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Bigtigermike
To: Bigtigermike
Mencken was pithier:
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:55:39 AM PST
by
Huck
(Do talk radio hosts get paid extra when they use the word "impugn"? It sure seems like it.)
To: Bigtigermike
“omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Is there any better description of the nanny-statists than this? I don’t think so.
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01/03/2011 9:56:20 AM PST
by
Personal Responsibility
(The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
To: Uncle Ike
>>The most dangerous phrase in the English Language There oughtta be a law....<<
Followed by (in order):
“I am from the Government and I am here to Help.”
“I am a democrat.”
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posted on
01/03/2011 9:56:46 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Nothing sharpens the mind like not being able to get a job. /Nonstatist)
To: Bigtigermike
One of my favorites. Thank you... I now have the rest of it.
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01/03/2011 9:57:48 AM PST
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Uncle Ike
The most dangerous phrase in the English Language There oughtta be a law....
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posted on
01/03/2011 10:00:19 AM PST
by
mc5cents
(Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
To: Personal Responsibility
“Ominpotent moral busybodies” describes Nancy Pelosi without any morals!
To: Bigtigermike
Excellent quote from Lewis, & one Christians & Conservatives should heed as well. It’s almost impossible to talk to liberals/lefties because they immediately start screaming that we want to take away their rights (abortion) or make them live the way we want them to (no drugs, no living in sin, etc.) We have to realize we can’t make others do what we want, either.
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01/03/2011 10:01:24 AM PST
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: Bigtigermike
But the sheer superlative nature of the quote gives you automatic pardon for the wrong date. ;D
Thank you
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01/03/2011 10:01:35 AM PST
by
Shimmer1
(If my body dies, then let it die, but let my country live.)
To: Personal Responsibility
And yet, I wish America would and could return to a time when we lived under omnipotent moral busybodies instead of the robber barons we have selected and elected as our leaders.
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01/03/2011 10:01:56 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: Bigtigermike
I know—the thinkers who did just that!!!!!! Wish the so called “intellectuals” in the universities were even a forth like this great man. We have way too few people alive today with such a profound mind.
To: Bigtigermike
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posted on
01/03/2011 10:04:04 AM PST
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: Bigtigermike
Let's all laugh at Sarah Palin because she reads this "children's books" author. < /The View harpy mode>
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01/03/2011 10:09:09 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -Frederic Bastiat)
To: Bigtigermike
C S Lewis had a way of cutting to the heart of the matter. Probably my all time favorite writer. I had never read a more shrewd or powerful Christian apologetic than “Mere Chrisrianity”
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01/03/2011 10:11:14 AM PST
by
Mom MD
(Jesus is the Light of the world!)
To: KarlInOhio
Yep.....Sarah is an idiot for liking an brilliant intellectual who was......oops! Libs get it wrong once again!
To: Bigtigermike
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
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posted on
01/03/2011 10:24:01 AM PST
by
denydenydeny
(Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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