Saturday, October 25, 2014

Pfau on the modernistic charge of nostalgia

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" The longing for a past plenitude, as indeed the supposition that it had once existed, rests on two closely related assumptions:  firs...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

"a long obedience in the same direction"

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"Das Wesentliche, „im Himmel und auf Erden“, wie es scheint, ist, nochmals gesagt, dass lange und in Einer Richtung  gehorch t werde...

So even the Institute nods?

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With Democratic Enlightenment  and now Revolutionary ideas, Jonathan "Israel has taken himself out of contention as a trustworthy hist...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

"collective emotions" are "irremediably the domain of the devil"

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"the social is irremediably the domain of the devil.  The flesh impels us to say me and the devil impels us to say us; or else to say...
Friday, October 10, 2014

"one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go towards the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms."

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"on ne peut jamais trop résister à Dieu si on le fait par pur souci de la vérité.  Le Christ aime qu'on lui préfère la vérité, car ...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

"you declare your mighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity"; grant, therefore, in your mercy, that we might run to obtain your promises!

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Wouter Engler, Ethiopiër Assefa Bentayehu, Marathon Rotterdam 2013 . 2010 ICEL: (26th Sunday in Ordinary Time) : O God, who manifest ...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

"'No good work is undertaken with wise reflection.'"

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"'. . . but God led me up like a[n old] nag whose eyes have been put out so that it won't see those who come to deliver the fat...