Tag Archives: Edmund Burke

Shall Malice Bear Down Truth?

It is thus, and for the same end, that they endeavor to destroy that tribunal of conscience which exists independently of edicts and decrees. Your despots govern by terror. They know, that he who fears God fears nothing else; and … Continue reading

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Out of the Shadows

As a rood was I raised up; I bore aloft the mighty King, the Lord of heaven; I durst not stoop. – “The Dream of the Rood” ___________________________ When I was a child growing up in the 1950’s my parents … Continue reading

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Emmaus

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the … Continue reading

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St. Paul and Anders

And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty … Continue reading

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Festering Lilies

And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, … Continue reading

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The Fear of the Devil and his Minions

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. –The Tempest by Shakespeare There is a courageous wisdom: there is also a false reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. Under misfortunes it often happens that the … Continue reading

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The Liberals’ Utopian Hell

The rebels to God perfectly abhor the Author of their being. They hate him “with all their heart, with all their mind, with all their soul, and with all their strength.” He never presents himself to their thoughts but to … Continue reading

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The Love That Frees Us from Satan’s Power

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. – Luke 23: 43 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto … Continue reading

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The People without a Heart

Oh, learn to feel from what a stock thou’rt sprung; Cast not, for tinsel trash and idle show, The precious jewel of thy worth away. -Schiller, William Tell ____________________________________ The conservatives of the post-World War II era, men such as … Continue reading

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The Fruits of Compromise

There is a courageous wisdom: there is also a false reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. Under misfortunes it often happens that the nerves of the understanding are so relaxed, the pressing peril of the hour … Continue reading

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