Neil Edward J.

“Addicts are not an isolated subset of the population. We all have the potential for addiction.”
― Drew Dyck, Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science

“While earlier generations might have seen damage to body or property as the most serious categories of crime, a highly psychologized era will accord increasing importance to words as means of oppression. And this represents a serious challenge to one of the foundations of liberal democracy: freedom of speech. Once harm and oppression are regarded as being primarily psychological categories, freedom of speech then becomes part of the problem, not the solution, because words become potential weapons.”
― Carl R Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

“Mearcstapa is not a comfortable role. Life on the borders of a group— and in the space between groups—is prone to dangers literal and figurative, with people both at “home” and among the “other” likely to misunderstand or mistrust the motivations, piety, and loyalty of the border-stalker. But mearcstapa can be a role of cultural leadership in a new mode, serving functions including empathy, memory, warning, guidance, mediation, and reconciliation. Those who journey to the borders of their group and beyond will encounter new vistas and knowledge that can enrich the group.”
― Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life

“According to Flaubert, the artist inhabits his or her work as God does: present everywhere, but visible nowhere.”
― Makoto Fujimura, Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering