Wednesday, October 15, 2014

From "On Liberty" by J.S. Mill

Usually I wait until I'm done reading a book before I comment on it, but this one has so much, I'm afraid I'll forget or it will lose impact if I put them all together in one book.

Here's my favorite quote from this today.

"I believe this view of the subject is mostly confined to the sort of persons who think that new truths may have been desirable once, but that we have had enough of them now."

Every idea was new at one point. Jesus and His ministry was totally new. People had to stop, read, discuss, and accept this new premise of who God really loved. If we believe He is the Son of God and the way to heaven, we need to be able to hear new ideas about God and compare them to our current beliefs and make the personal choice of what we believe.


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