Monday, January 19, 2015

"May we seek those things which are beneficial to our brothers, without counting the cost, —to help them on the way to salvation."

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"May we seek those things which are beneficial to our brothers, without counting the cost, — to help them on the way to salvation....
Monday, January 12, 2015

"Culturally speaking, the Christian religion is one of those subjects about which it is cool to be ignorant."

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     Rowan Williams, "No life, here  —  no joy, terror or tears,"  Church times,  17 July 1998, p. 27 (26-27).

"If a corpse clearly marked 'Jesus of Nazareth' turned up, I should save myself a lot of trouble and become a Quaker."

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"I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology of the risen body; an...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Intimations of Christianity among the Romans

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     "'You must forgive me, Nicolaus; I know that you will disagree, and that you have no way to voice your disagreement; but I hav...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Quem terra pontus aethera . . . (attr. Venantius Fortunatus, c.530-c.610) / The God whom earth and sea and sky . . . (John Mason Neale, 1818-1866)

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Quem terra pontus aethera . . . The God whom earth and sea and sky . . .      Hymn, Office of readings, Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

"a remark addressed to the contemporary gay fight for marriage equality."

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"What you want is to live with a man in a happy home.  But you don't know how trivial it is.  Marriage is emblematic of modern life...

Honest Abe

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"'With him truth is out of the question, and as for getting a good bright passable lie out of him, you might as well try to strike ...