There Is Nothing More Ugly

The Value Of The Things Is Not In Themselves Autonomously, But That God Made Them, And Thus They Deserve To Be Treated With High Respect. The Tree In The Field Is To Be Treated With Respect. It Is Not To Be Romanticized As The Old Lady Romanticizes Her Cat (that Is, She Reads Human Reactions Into It). This Is Wrong Because It Is Not True. When You Drive The Axe Into The Tree When You Need Firewood, You Are Not Cutting Down A Person; You Are Cutting Down A Tree. But While We Should Not Romanticize The Tree, We Must Realize God Made It And It Deserves Respect Because He Made Is As A Tree.

We Are Not Being True To The Artist As A Man If We Consider His Art Work Junk Simply Because We Differ With His Outlook On Life. Christian Schools, Christian Parents, And Christian Pastors Often Have Turned Off Young People At Just This Point. Because The Schools, The Pastors, And The Parents Did Not Make A Distinction Between Technical Excellence And Content, The Whole Of Much Great Art Has Been Rejected With Scorn And Ridicule. Instead, If The Artist's Technical Excellence Is High, He Is To Be Praised For This, Even If We Differ With His World View. Man Must Be Treated Fairly As Man.

There Is Nothing More Ugly Than An Orthodoxy Without Understanding Or Compassion.

The Basic Problem Of The Christians In This Country In The Last Eighty Years Or So, In Regard To Society And In Regard To Government, Is That They Have Seen Things In Bits And Pieces Instead Of Totals.

If There Is No Absolute Moral Standard, Then One Cannot Say In A Final Sense That Anything Is Right Or Wrong.