August 2009
33 posts
July 2009
46 posts
“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
– Tennessee Williams
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories....”
– Jeremy Irons
“Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love...”
– Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate
Losing Neverland →
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“We live in an age of manufactured outrage. Teenage snottiness is often self-righteous anger against the curtailing of one’s narcissism in the name of personal rights, as when…
“It is necessary here to call attention to the particular richness, variety and...”
– Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Love and Responsibility, p.32
“Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“And yet, I never lost sight of God’s Providence. I knew that nothing was...”
– Walter J. Ciszek, With God in Russia, writing about his experiences in Lubianka
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to...”
– Paul J. Meyer
“Real love must be a choice based upon the truth about the person loved.”
– Dave Sloan
Calvin and Hobbes for July 21, 2009 →
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As eloquent rebuttal of fatalism as any.
“There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify...”
– St. Josemaria Escriva
“To get any job done right, find people who are good at it, and give them both...”
– Mencius Moldbug
“Intense love does not measure … it just gives.”
– Mother Teresa
“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand,...”
– Mark Twain
“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”
– H. L. Mencken
25. Forgiving for Real (Mt 9:1-8) →
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“They had closed their minds; they were attached to their own ideas, their own standards, their own limited understanding – they thought they had God all figured out. It is a…
“I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Temptation is the voice of repressed evil; conscience is the voice of repressed...”
– J. A. Hadfield
“Beauty has wholeness, harmony, and radiance.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
“One of the most insidious influences in modern society comes from those who...”
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 177
““Good morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining,...”
– The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust →
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This is awesomely beautiful.
Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found
“One of the greatest mistakes the human heart can make is to seek pleasure as a...”
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 176
"Speed Freaks" - Tue, 07 Jul 2009 →
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Gotta love C&H references in Sinfest :)
A Miracle in the Hands of the Priest... →
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Moving imagery about the drop of water added to the Chalice.
At the Altar, in the hands of the priest, a miracle happens before our very eyes. A drop of water is placed…
Blue Maritime →
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Mm, blue wallpaper.
The Fremantle Maritime Museum is an amazing building. It has a “Sydney Opera House” style of architecture to it with a big sweeping shell of a roof…
“If human love fails, it is because it is short-circuited, not directed to a...”
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 165
“Pleasure is a by-product of the fulfillment of duty; it is a bridesmaid, not a...”
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 176
“Your cruelest pain is when you think of all
The honied treasure of your bodies...”
– John Davidson
“An eminent physician, in a conference which he gave to distinguished scientists...”
– From a little booklet on Suffering
“Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on...”
– W. Edwards Deming
