There is something, to me, very sinister about this emergence of a weird kind of
conformity, or orthodoxy, particularly among the people who operate the media,
so that you can tell in advance exactly what they will say and think about
anything. It is true that so far they have not got an Inquisition to enforce
their orthodoxy, but they do have ways of enforcing it which make the old
thumbscrews and racks seem quite paltry. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The poor Church of Christ , the sober, sound religious Part, are like Christ
that was crucified between two Malefactors; the profane and formal Persecutors
on one hand, and the Fanatick dividing Sectary on the other hand, have in all
Ages been grinding the spiritual Seed, as the Corn is ground between the
Millstones: And though their sins have ruined themselves and us, and silenced so
many hundred Ministers, and scattered the Flocks and made us the Hatred and the
Scorn of the ungodly World, and a by Word and Desolation in the Earth; yet there
are few of them that lament their Sin , but Justify themselves and their
Misdoings, and the penitent Malefactor is yet unknown to us. - Richard Baxter
So, if you are a Christian looking for an easy ministry in a post-Christian
culture where Christians are a minority, you are unrealistic in your outlook. It
was not to be so in Jeremiah's day, and it cannot be so in ours. - Francis
Schaeffer
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer
this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends,
to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O
you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing
who would ever have been spared. - Martin Luther
There is something, to me, very sinister about this emergence of a weird kind of
conformity, or orthodoxy, particularly among the people who operate the media,
so that you can tell in advance exactly what they will say and think about
anything. It is true that so far they have not got an Inquisition to enforce
their orthodoxy, but they do have ways of enforcing it which make the old
thumbscrews and racks seem quite paltry. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The poor Church of Christ , the sober, sound religious Part, are like Christ
that was crucified between two Malefactors; the profane and formal Persecutors
on one hand, and the Fanatick dividing Sectary on the other hand, have in all
Ages been grinding the spiritual Seed, as the Corn is ground between the
Millstones: And though their sins have ruined themselves and us, and silenced so
many hundred Ministers, and scattered the Flocks and made us the Hatred and the
Scorn of the ungodly World, and a by Word and Desolation in the Earth; yet there
are few of them that lament their Sin , but Justify themselves and their
Misdoings, and the penitent Malefactor is yet unknown to us. - Richard Baxter
So, if you are a Christian looking for an easy ministry in a post-Christian
culture where Christians are a minority, you are unrealistic in your outlook. It
was not to be so in Jeremiah's day, and it cannot be so in ours. - Francis
Schaeffer
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer
this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends,
to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O
you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing
who would ever have been spared. - Martin Luther