November 2009
31 posts
“There is value, when choosing a long-term partner, in realizing that you will...”
– Dan Wile, After the Honeymoon, p. 13
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Most men in this country like opinions to be brought to them, rather than to be...”
– John Henry Newman
“What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The truth is that many writers today of mediocre talent, or no talent at all,...”
– G.H. Vallins, The Best English 106 (1960).
“Most obscurity, I suspect, comes not so much from incompetence as from ambition...”
– F.L. Lucas, Style 74 (1962).
“Some people leave money for the improvement of public buildings. I can leave...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The church—this hopeless romantic that she is—holds that sexual love is so...”
– Archbishop Tim Dolan
“You really cannot expect me to deprive myself of my money. But I will make a...”
– G.K. Chesterton on those advocating birth control for the poor
“Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“You do not seem to have grasped the situation at all; you fail to see that it is...”
– Caiaphas, John 11:49-50
“The placid nihilism of our generation is the deadliest land mine laid by the...”
– Fr. George Rutler
“And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feelings for the sins...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“Lost is our old simplicity of times;
the world abounds with laws,
and teems...”
– Anonymous, Pennsylvania Gazette, 1775
“The business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know...”
– George MacDonald, Lilith
“It may, I think, even be argued that Communism in Russia, National Socialism in...”
– Christopher Dawson, Religion and the Modern State, 1938
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“If you lose heart when things go wrong, your strength is not worth much.”
– Proverbs 24:10
“He reached out his hand. She reached out hers from across a chasm. But as they...”
– Michael D. O’Brien, Strangers and Sojourners, p. 544
“One always wishes to know before making the first step. A lifetime can be spent...”
– Michael D. O’Brien, Strangers and Sojourners, p. 369
“There are those we encounter in life who possess the gift of reaching through...”
– Michael D. O’Brien, Strangers and Sojourners, p. 137
“Love doesn’t need rules. Love should be like the fruit in a wild orchard,...”
– Michael D. O’Brien, Strangers and Sojourners, p. 210
“When you’re efficient, you have more time to do what you love.”
– Rands
“Let us suppose that a man and a woman, understanding their limitations and their...”
– Michael D. O’Brien, Strangers and Sojourners, p. 103
“As a culture, we don’t particularly care about killing children in the womb—so...”
– In reply to Dan (via marco)
“What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still...”
– G.K. Chesterton