Christianity Archives - Page 6 of 26 - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Burke UMC Sermon—Harvest of Hope

Posted November 5, 2000, 4:24 p.m.

Lane Mem. UMC Sermon—Conceptual Christianity

Posted February 20, 2000, 4:18 p.m.

Lane Mem. UMC Sermon—You Should Be Dancing

Posted February 21, 1999, 4:16 p.m.

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Persuasive Speech/Paper)

Posted December 5, 1997, 12:23 p.m.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

The power of the will does not extend to making opposites exist at the same time.

Thomas Aquinas

In taking vital decisions [prisoners] are guided by the well-known rule of the [Gulag]: It is better to be a son-of-a-bitch than to suffer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one’s convictions and not tell the people the truth.

Adlai Stevenson II

Once you’ve dissected a joke, you’re about where you are when you’ve dissected a frog. It’s dead.

Isaac Asimov

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

Donald Trump

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

Anaïs Nin

Let the nation try justice and the problem will be solved.

Frederick Douglass

But love, in the Christian sense, . . . is a state not of the feelings but of the will . . . which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C.S. Lewis

You cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form.

Michael Crichton

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?

Edgar Allan Poe

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Blaise Pascal

Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may ultimately require intervention by some civilized Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.

Teddy Roosevelt

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing.

Jordan Peterson

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Freeman Dyson

Be polite and generous, but don’t undervalue yourself.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.

Thomas Jefferson

The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Holy Bible

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Anne Frank

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