Israel Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Thus while walking along the road one needs not to be thinking of the end at every step.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Suppose for instance, that the same body, which has the power of raising money by taxes, is also entrusted with the application of that money, they will very probably raise large sums, and apply them to their own private uses.

[To write,] you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.

The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom.

Do not foolishly confuse ‘nice’ with ‘good.’

If the body of the people will not govern themselves, and govern themselves well too, the consequence is unavoidable . . . a few will, and must govern them.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Christian perfection has but one limit, that of having none.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Does any man suppose that one general national government can exist in so extensive a country as this?

The power of the will does not extend to making opposites exist at the same time.

There is no logical path to these laws [of physics]; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Just as pragmatism is unpragmatic and empiricism is not empirical, rationalism is irrational. You can’t prove that truth is only what can be proved.

God is known by natural knowledge through the images of his effects.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

To speak in general terms, we may say that the Christian is to the world what the soul is to the body. As the soul is present in every part of the body, while remaining distinct from it, so Christians are found in all the cities of the world, but cannot be identified with the world.

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