“Advice on swimming with sharks”
“Don’t swim at night, over a deep sea trench, while being lit from above by boat-based floodlights.”
Blog, page 39
“The most international city in the U.S.”
Of course, it depends on how you measure: raw number of ethnicities or languages, percentage of population, foreign born, etc. But the fact remains that Houston, Miami, and other sunbelt cities are becoming the places where many immigrant populations make their homes.
“I always binge on media when I’m in America. But this time it feels different… It feels like it’s bingeing back.”
One of my favorite reads this year.
“One of the most concrete meanings of grace is: ‘Now is the time to go on.’”
3-minute Dallas Willard interview video.
“The only reason these rules exist from the F.A.A. is because of agency inertia and paranoia.”
Nick Bilton’s persistent coverage of (er, against) the FAA has been excellent.
“Bookkeeping through all eternity could never produce one farthing.”
–CS Lewis
“There is no purely secular domain of your life.”
“With God we shall do valiantly.”
–Psalm 108:13
“People who speak thus are seeking a homeland… They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.”
–Hebrews 11:14-16
“40% of scientists believe in a personal God”
Francis Collins, lead scientist for the Human Genome Project
“It is astounding to look at the knife edge of improbability upon which our existence exists.”
– Francis Collins.
“Rationalization is the homage paid by guilt to moral knowledge”
–Bud Budziszewski
“Remembering Dallas Willard”
I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
–Dallas Willard