Friday, August 20, 2010

In all things and above all things

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Wikimedia Commons "O God, who have prepared  for those who love you  good things which  no eye can see,  fill our hearts, we pray, ...

"Conscious of what might be said against themselves, they are cautious what they say against others"

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"Such men, being thus indulgent to themselves, are indulgent to each other; they make allowance for all around them, as taking what the...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Rutler on the sturdy English of the Golden Age

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"if I had been St. Martha speaking of Lazarus, I might say today: 'My brother who passed away is not well preserved,' but I pre...

Chesterton on "the mistake of merely evolutionary introductions and prefaces"

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"Monkeys did not begin  pictures and men finish them; Pithecanthropus did not draw a reindeer badly and Homo Sapiens draw it well.  The...

Sic et non

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“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find you...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Nichols on the re-conversion of England

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"Re-Christianization needs a church that is not only doctrinally coherent (because an intellectual battle has to be won about Christian...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Labourdette on "the KNOWLEDGE at the heart of the religious attitude"

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Some of the characteristics of religious (as distinguished from, say, scientific or philosophical) knowledge do become problematic when unde...