Our Corrupt Minds

Genesis 6:5

The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (NIV)

John N. Oswalt

What the Hebrew says is that the very way we go about forming images in our minds is wholly corrupt... We do not automatically focus upon what is noble, good and true, as Paul urged us to do (Phil. 4:8). Rather our imaginations drift to the pornographic, the horrible, the perverse, and the corrupt.

~ Called to Be Holy

pages 40-41

Cory's Broken Promise

"Cory and I met at the house of my son, David in our Mandaluyong compound. She announced that she had changed her mind. She was now willing to run under UNIDO! She reiterated her previous offer that I would be her Prime Minister, that she would step down in two years, that I would name 30 percent of the Cabinet, that she would appoint the remaining 70 percent after close consultations with me. I said I would have to think it over and decide before the deadline that night."

from the diary of former Vice President Salvador "Doy" Laurel

December 11, 1985