Hold tightly to your freedoms

I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yestereday at the voting booth. — William F. Buckley, Jr. Up From Liberalism (1959)

On Christians as political activists

"If people who call themselves Christians want to see any influence in the culture, then they ought to start following the commands of Jesus and people will be so amazed that they will be attracted to Him. The problem isn't political. The problem is moral and spiritual.  
"You have the choice between a way that works and brings no credit or money or national attention, or a way that doesn't work that gets you lots of attention and has little influence on the culture." —Cal Thomas, Author and columnist

Irrational Rationality

"You can't be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rational decisions and go to work and, on one day of the week, go to a building and think you're drinking the blood of a 2,000-year-old space god..." — Bill Maher, on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.  

“It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can’t see things as they are.“ — G. K. Chesterton

A Jesus I can't beat up

"There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity." -Mark Driscoll, Relevant Magazine

On what we think we hear

If a person plays dissonance long enough it will sound like consonance. --Keith Jarrett