Quotes of the Week
Quote of the Week
by Jimmy Hopper
Below is our second “Quote of the Week”, an observation on Christianity and/or life. Feel free to register your thoughts about it, positive or negative.This week’s quote is from “Puritans and Prigs,” an essay in The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson:
A Puritan confronted by failure and ambivalence could find his faith justified by the experience, could feel that the world had answered his expectations. We have replaced this with an unsystematic, uncritical, and in fact, unconscious perfectionism-the idea that society can and should produce good people, that is, people suited to life in whatever imagined optimum society, who then stabilize the society in its goodness so that it produces more good people, and so on.
Have at it.
Posted by Jimmy Hopper at July 12, 2007 04:25 PM