“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still.” ― Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
That which is not growing is dying. Living things change. They may look the same, but not without a lot of effort. Living things can look them same only by being renewed. In this way, they fight off the effects of entropy. If they stop fighting, they start showing their wear and tear.
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." — G.K. Chesterton
A dead thing floating down stream may have the appearance of swimming, but only a living thing can swim upstream. Anyone can go with the flow or get caught up in the current, but only a living thing has the dynamism to resist the rule of rust and decay.
"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution. Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post. But this which is true even of inanimate things is in a quite special and terrible sense true of all human things. An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before." — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (The Eternal Revolution)
If you want to get back to the good ol' days, you're going to have to do it anew. The good ol' days grow dull unless they are renewed. The flames of tradition grow cold if no one adds new wood to the fire. It must be stoked in order to stay ablaze.
“Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.” — Robert Conquest
If you are not fighting for what you believe, you are conceding to what someone else is fighting for. Nothing is right wing by accident. The antithesis placed into creation by God continues. For all of its many faults, the one thing the seed of the serpent never fails to do is fight. It never fails to remember that it is in a war. It never flags in zeal for its purposes. If only the same could be said for those claiming the name of Christ. If only the devil knew anytime he took it to a Christian, he would be getting the zeal of the Lord in response. Then we would begin to see him flee.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
When we put our faith in Christ, the enemy is all elbows and asses.
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