The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.


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J. I. PACKER
I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding eve...
J. I. PACKER
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite...
J. I. PACKER
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. PACKER
I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be s...
J. I. PACKER
My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love y...
J. I. PACKER
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thou...
J. I. PACKER
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
BOYD K. PACKER
If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations,...
JAMES I. PACKER
Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is abroad today a widespread suspicio...
JAMES I. PACKER
Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn...
JAMES I. PACKER
Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un...
JAMES I. PACKER
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individu...
JAMES I. PACKER
Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 When evangelicals call the Bible "ine...
JAMES I. PACKER
Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bi...
J. I. PACKER
All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly ima...
J. I. PACKER
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides ...
J. I. PACKER
I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the comm...
BOYD K. PACKER
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th...
BOYD K. PACKER
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evi...
BOYD K. PACKER
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA