Monday, September 3, 2018

"'if your right hand causes you to sin'"

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"all they that continue in their evill wayes. . . . must depart:   how far?   first, they must be avoided, Declinate, saith S. Paul,...

"a firm and certain knowledge"

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"As attention exercises, [Donne's poems] are aimed at allowing the speaker to think a religious doctrine with a certainty that is s...
Friday, August 31, 2018

The more of God, the more of me

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"Today we glorify God by being humble; in heaven it is our glory that will be his praise, it is our glory that will glorify him." ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

No easy, "centering," candlelit, feel-good exercise

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"the meditative reading of Scripture was understood by the first generations of monastic Christians to be an arduous physical activity,...
Monday, August 27, 2018

"A table without a remembrance of God is indistinguishable from a feeding-trough."

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Source Τράπεζα μὴ ἔχουσα μνήμην Θεοῦ, φάτνης ἀλόγων οὐδὲν διενήνοχεν.      Leontius of Byzantium, Rerum sacrarum 2, On dinner ( Περὶ δ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Which will it be? Down or up?

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"It may be that the [seventeenth-century] Pascalian concept [of diversion ( divertissement )] will [only] be fully appreciated [(prenne...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Full score please!

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"Typographically the volume, crafted by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, is a superior piece of book-making—though lame...