Saturday, August 3, 2013

"the question of the sacraments IS the question of the church drawing its life from Christ."

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     "Why did Barth, a modern ecumenical theologian par excellence, not pursue the significance of the eucharistic liturgy as a decisiv...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

"Age . . . has done more for my morals than Methodism ever did."

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     River Bill Thacker, in Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow,  chap. 23 (Washington, DC:  Counterpoint, 2000), 256).
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

"remember the Church in Syria"

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"Remember me in your prayers, that I may attain to God, and remember the Church in Syria, of which I am not worthy to be called a membe...
Monday, July 22, 2013

"faith 'sees' to the extent that it journeys, to the extent that it chooses to enter into the horizons opened up by God’s word."

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"The word spoken to Abraham. . . .  is a call to leave his own land, a summons to a new life, the beginning of an exodus which points h...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Tocqueville on the origin of the Sublime

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     "When skepticism [(le doute)] had depopulated heaven, and the progress of equality had reduced each individual to smaller and bett...

"in crowning their merits, you crown your own gifts."

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It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

On the shoulders of giants

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12th-century, Bernard of Chartres (d. c. 1130), as quoted by John of Salisbury (c. 1115-1180): "Bernard of Chartres used to compare u...