Friday, January 20, 2017

"Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump."

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      Rinker Buck, The Oregon trail:  a new American journey (New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2015), 32 .  When Buck composed this senten...
Monday, January 16, 2017

"both object of scorn to the proud and bride of Christ"

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"O humility!  o sublimity!  Both tabernacle of cedar and sanctuary of God; earthly dwelling and celestial palace; house of clay and roy...

"It is truly . . . our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks"

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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 eter...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

"A Church with little attention to doctrine is not a more pastoral Church, but . . . a more ignorant Church."

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"Una Chiesa con poca attenzione alla dottrina non è una Chiesa più pastorale, ma è una Chiesa più ignorante."      Cardinal Caff...

"There is no time for thought, we think only of outcomes."

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     Philip Terry, Du Bellay:  Like Cataln Anarchy,  Crater 33 (London:   Crater Press , August 2015) as quoted by Jeremy Noel-Tod, in ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

"Preaching is a kind of instrument by which the Church of God is constructed."

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"Praedicatio is quoddam instrumentum, quo Ecclesia Dei fabricata est."      Paris, Bibl. Nat. Cod. lat. 455, as quoted by Zoltan...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Harder boundaries appeal to sharper minds

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Department of History, Princeton University "Alas, harder boundaries appealed to sharper minds."      Peter Brown, "Rec...