February 2012
25 posts
“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation”
– T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, “The Dry Salvages”
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“So I said to myself that people are consumed by boredom. Naturally, one has to...”
– The Diary of a Country Priest, Georges Bernanos (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
“The attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more...”
– Reason in Religion by George Santayana
“Paul speaks of an abundance of grace to show that what we have received is not...”
– St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans 10, as translated in Ancient Christian Devotional. (via wesleyanrudy)
“The mind of a child envisions a world of adventure and purpose while the mind of...”
– John Dyer, from From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology (via settledthingsstrange)
“And it is this joy of expectation and this expectation of joy that are expressed...”
– Schmemann, For the Life of the World (via poeticfaith)
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller (via Fred Smith on Facebook)
“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay)
[Hulga-Joy’s comment:] This certainly reflects my own experience. When I first began to move to a true rejection of science/faith dualism (extraordinarily difficult to do, even with a reasonable education), I was frequently disturbed by the vastness and...
“At the heart of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is the call to love...”
– At the Heart of the Gospel: A Book Excerpt
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“Just as the reality of the Word of God in Jesus Christ bears its possibility...”
– Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics II.1, 6 quoted in Adiaphora: Genuine Questions of Church Proclamation
“There are good and bad amongst them as in every class. But one thing is clear to...”
– George MacDonald, Robert Falconer (via georgemacdonald)
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“We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of...”
– Hilaire Belloc, The Barbarians
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“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.”
– Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum (qtd. here)
Adiaphora: Rant: Book Design →
I have been noticing this too. Book publishers should be competing with e-readers by making their physical books more artistic and usable, not by making them even more difficult to parse.
And three cheers for a proper critique of Baskerville, that unreadable face.
preciseandtowering:
Caveat: I know next to nothing about the book publishing industry, especially from the inside.
Nevertheless,...
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“Interestingly, when smart people feel less alienated, they seem to buy different...”
– Postrel: Can You Pass the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Test? - Bloomberg (via ayjay)
I love her synopsis of the themes of several mid-century best-sellers.
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“All God’s deeds are inexpressible. We can dishonor them all by speaking...”
– Hendrikus Berkhof, Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, 9 (quoted here) (h/t)
“Disillusion can become itself an illusion if we rest in it.”
– T. S. Eliot
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“Human beings are responsible for what they say, not only publicly but...”
– John Lukacs (on Mars Hill Audio Journal 75).
A related thought in The Future of History 88
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“If he came to reveal his Father in miniature, as it were (for in these...”
– George MacDonald - Miracles of Our Lord (via georgemacdonald)
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“The strength of our faith is tried by those things wherein our wits and...”
– Richard Hooker (via wesleyanrudy)
“The supernatural vitality of hope overflows, moreover, and sheds its light also...”
– Josef Pieper. Reminds me of that marvelous passage in Chesterton that concludes with, “our Father is younger than we.” (via wesleyhill)
“Hence reading is self-mastery, because the self (and its affirmations) are held...”
– So Why Read (Fiction) Any More? « Commentary Magazine (via ayjay)
“Good writing requires a sense of melody as well as a command of grammar.”
– Victor Davis Hanson, So Why Read Anymore?
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January 2012
26 posts
“Many introverts feel there’s something wrong with them, and try to pass as...”
– The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance: Scientific American
“The conservative is in general some sort of an Aristotelian in his theory of how...”
– Francis G. Wilson, in The University Bookman: Oakeshott and Conservatism (1963)
“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“Now you have to learn to read this rightly, or it will just drive you nuts...”
– Dallas Willard on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6:1–18
“Most religious celebrations gather us around a table of some sort. They hand us...”
– ‘Do not touch me’: the wisdom of Anglican thresholds – Telegraph Blogs
“The real question, John [of the Cross] suggests, is about what you are really...”
– Rowan Williams, “The Dark Night” (via ayjay)
“Art is the well making of what needs making.”
– Eric Gill
“The mind serves best when it’s anchored in the word of God. There is no danger...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“Ritual and Ceremonial things move not God, but they exalt that Devotion, and...”
– John Donne
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid...”
– Sydney Smith, Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us...”
– Wendell Berry, “Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms” (via nachtseite)
“The fact that the all-powerful nature was capable of stooping down to the...”
– Gregory of Nyssa (via invisibleforeigner)
“A science must not strive for a level of exactness that is foreign to its...”
– Aristotelianism summarized by Michael Potemra
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, … “the law is a ass—a idiot. If...”
– Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Either we have hope within us or we...”
– Vaclav Havel.
“And Protestantism having deprived the Church of almost all
means of thus...”
– Guild Court, George MacDonald (via nachtseite)
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“A good sermon changes even known truth into profound realization.”
– Marilynne Robinson
“The opposite of kitsch is not sophistication but innocence.”
– Kitsch and the Modern Predicament by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 1999 (via poeticfaith)
“Yet nowadays the planet is moving too fast for even a Rushdie or DeLillo to keep...”
– A long sentence is worth the read
“As Weber understood in the end, the bureaucratization of knowledge and the...”
– Wilfred McClay, What Do Experts Know? > National Affairs
“In seminary Mister Rogers studied systematic theology with Dr. William S. Orr....”
– Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Christianity Today