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Great Quote
ByFrom Charles Spurgeon, cited in my current read, Unfashionable by Tullian Tchividjian. Keep in mind he is talking about much more than fashion in clothes. How we think is certainly much more important.
“The great guide of the world is fashion and its god is respectability–two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not do so! You ask, ‘Is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done.’ Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common consent of fools.”
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:21 am
“The dress does not make the Monaco”, but if the garment is worn with casual fashion and comfort can not be likened to a “common consensus of fools.” Surely our way of thinking is much more important. Indeed, were it not so, then you would fall in the thought of Charles Spurgeon. But sometimes the expression of certain thoughts “not fashionable” is synonymous with “subversive” or “extremist”.