Imagine _______ had been unfaithful to their spouse. Do you think it would be legitimate for the media to report this, or do you think they should be entitled to keep the matter private?
I have my doubts, too: doubts that naturally arise when, say, her magazine hawks both the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and $185 beach blankets without a smidgen of irony.
” … churches tend to lose vigor when they relax demands on adherents.”
As a tribute to the power of positive thinking, this iconic landmark of American religion continues to put its own ideologies to the test.
“This is a culture so obsessed with transparency that it can confuse that, I think, with this universal miasma of gossip and prurience.”
I will confer the grace of the Holy Spirit, he says, so that you may always have it with you to teach you the truth. He speaks of another Advocate, as of another instructor, a comforter. This is a doctrine for those in dire straits because the Spirit, through its grace, will make the afflictions inflicted on them by people lighter. And, as a consolation, through its gifts, it will enable them to easily endure their afflictions