July 2012
14 posts
4 tags
“Analogy is a discourse of truth that has disabused itself of the notion that...”
– David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite (h/t)
Jul 20th
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“As has not been the case in the long Christian hegemony of the West, now the...”
– Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament, The Canon and Christian Imagination, 27 (via yuceka) I’m often irritated by Brueggemann, but I fully endorse this.
Jul 17th
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“Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)...”
– Freedom of Worship’s Assault on Freedom of Religion | First Things (via ayjay)
Jul 15th
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“The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but...”
– T. S. Eliot, Thoughts After Lambeth (1931)
Jul 15th
21 notes
““I recently read an article that depicted a heated exchange between a seminary...”
– Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (via hulga-joy)
Jul 13th
129 notes
“I try to avoid logical fallacies. And I think far too many people are ignorant...”
– epiklesis: Logic and Truth  This needs to be unpacked, but is correct.
Jul 11th
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“The question for an adult reader of Lewis Caroll, however, is not the author’s...”
– W.H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords (via gmd)
Jul 11th
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“People will often cite hard work and a high degree of motivation as the secret...”
– Learning to Program (via ayjay)
Jul 11th
30 notes
“To be truly man means to be fully oneself. The confirmation is the confirmation...”
– » Fr. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy (1963)
Jul 11th
16 notes
“No other piece of punctuation so compactly captures the way in which our...”
– Semicolons: A Love Story - NYTimes.com
Jul 9th
2 notes
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“The church is rightly concerned with issues of poverty, health, education, and...”
– Dana Gioia, interviewed by Erika Koss in Image #73. (via giftsoutright)
Jul 8th
79 notes
1 tag
“It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is...”
– George MacDonald (via georgemacdonald)
Jul 5th
10 notes
“It all comes down to the mystery of the relationship between the mind and the...”
– Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam (via hulga-joy)
Jul 3rd
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“The man who takes seriously the command of Christ to take up his cross and...”
– W.H. Auden, via Nick Nowalk.  Part of me would love to have this printed on all my business cards. (via bluedollar)
Jul 3rd
3 notes