Joseph Pearce quotes

“Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.”
-- Joseph Pearce

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“...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.”
-- Joseph Pearce

Source : Joseph Pearce (2012). “Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit”, p.27, TAN Books

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“Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.”
-- Joseph Pearce

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“It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love of Christ and seeking to emulate His example in their daily lives.”
-- Joseph Pearce

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“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”

“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”

“Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alex Grey from May 10, 2012

“Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.”

“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.105, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

“POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.”

“Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.”

“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”

“Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.”