February 2012
25 posts
“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) 