"To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf."

-- Philip Graham Ryken

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“Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.”
“I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.”
“The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.”

Source : Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr
“My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.”
“Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.”

Source : Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com
“The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”
“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”
“Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.”

Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.113, Ipso Books

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