“The mail itself, it transpired (or, more accurately, the practicability of the empire-wide transmission of new and seditious ideas), would produce the greatest threat to imperial hegemony, not only in Judea and the East but across the entire compass of Roman dominion.”
You can never know what He’s up to.
Read MoreIt is the wisdom of the world to think that money and wealth prove much of anything at all. The truth of the matter is that we cannot know what God has in mind by how He exercises His sovereignty. There are those who work very hard and never become rich. Conversely, there are some who seem to acquire great wealth with mediocre talent and far less investment than those they surpass.
Read MoreBeing intelligent does not make you wise and being wise has nothing to do with your IQ.
Read MoreOne of the most beautiful things about children is that their minds have yet to be bound by the strictures of reality. Their imaginations soar, they pretend with reckless abandon and they create entire universes of play with no effort at all. They do not know what cannot be yet, so they have no reason to be bothered about it.
This is a truly wonderful quality in children. It becomes sociopathic in adults.
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