Results Oriented: Newt
At the age of thirteen I began working as a clerk in a store. I have since been able to provide for myself and my kids through the lessons learned at that early age. Work ethic update: Jan. 16th, 2012 SC debate:
At the age of thirteen I began working as a clerk in a store. I have since been able to provide for myself and my kids through the lessons learned at that early age. Work ethic update: Jan. 16th, 2012 SC debate:
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I listen to Bruce Wolf & Dan Proft weekdays, 9-11 CST on WLS 890 AM. They are the bomb! Listen to them online.
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"Abortion is the severest form of racism. Pro-choice abortion/racism is part and parcel of the Democrat's pary platform." Sally Paradise
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"It takes a pillage to raise a taxpayer." Sally Paradise
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“...to love democracy well, it is necessary to love it moderately." Alexis de Tocqueville
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Capitalism seeks to help others through a servce or product it provides. Free Market Capitalism is the most moral and fair economic system available to man. Capitalism augments personal growth, responsibility and ownership. Charity flourishes under capitalism. Charity dies under subjective "fair share” government confiscatory policies. Socialism redistributes greed.
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Obama: America in reverse.
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It’s a crime: The Solyndra money laundering of guaranteed federal loan money took money away from people who really needed it – the taxpayer.
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Obama's Moronic Squeeze: inflation and a tax increase w/malaise to go before I sleep.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein
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"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd." Flannery O'Connor
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“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).
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God's grace is not about the allowance for sin. God's grace is about the conversation God allows regarding sin.
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From the book of Proverbs: We are not to favor the rich or the poor. We are to pursue justice.
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"Always keep in contact with those books and those people that enlarge your horizon and make it possible for you to stretch yourself mentally." Oswald Chambers
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One goldfish says to another, “If there is no God who keeps changing the water?”
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“The truth is always there in the morning.”
From Cat On A Hot Tin Roof script - playwright Tennessee Williams
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God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.
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“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.” John W. Gardner
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“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.” John W. Gardner
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“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.” Dorothy L. Sayers
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
G. K. Chesterton
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“The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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This is what the LORD says:
“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
-The prophet Jeremiah, 6:16
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"…our common task is not so much discovering a truth hiding among contrary viewpoints as it is coming to possess a selfhood that no longer evades and eludes the truth with which it is importunately confronted.” James McClendon, Ethics: Systematic Theology, Vol. 1
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