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Friday, September 30, 2016
Sanctified snark
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"Farewell, my very dear friend, my son in years, my father in dignity, and please note this request: that, whatever you write to me, y...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
The infant learns to speak in its mother's lap
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"what can one imagine more contrary to all the known facts than this primitive state dreamed up by philosophy [(e.g. Rousseau)], in wh...
Saturday, September 24, 2016
For us, in order that it might be our own
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"All that can be said of us is that without this perfect action of God we would be lost; that apart from it we can have no refuge or c...
Pro nobis, sed etiam
propria nostra
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"All that can be said of us is that without this perfect action of God we would be lost; that apart from it we can have no refuge or c...
Thursday, September 22, 2016
"How is it that You have come into my presence, and what will become of me in Yours?"
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"Wie kommst du in meine Umgebung und was wird aus mir in der deinigen?" Karl Barth, CD IV/1, 290 =KD IV/1, 319. According ...
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Blessed are the cheesemakers
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"The raising and habitual using of Tobacco is contrary to the spirit of the Gospel. The weed is a narcotic poison; so virulent th...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
give simplicity "side of" complexity
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexi...
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