Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Marriage" in heaven

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"It’s hard for me to think that I could be me and have a relation to everybody else that’s the same as the relation to my wife.   I jus...

"As time goes on, the acceptance, the appreciation, even the understanding of nature, will be less and less needed. In its place will come the need to determine the desirable form of the humanly-controlled universe"

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Communist Party of Ireland "The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command...
Friday, August 16, 2019

John Wesley on the British Museum

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Wikimedia Commons "At the desire of some of my friends, I accompanied them to the British Museum.  What an immense field is here fo...

Pascal's wager

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"Certainties of this kind are experimental [(expérimentales)].  But if we do not believe in them before experiencing them, if at least ...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

"The recognition of human wretchedness [(misère)] is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances [(au misérable)] because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something."

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     Simone Weil, "Attention and will," in Gravity and grace, trans. Emma Craufurd (London:  Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 [1952...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

". . . and then trust Christ. Because twelve people followed him and it changed the world. And so, all we need is twelve, and we’ve got more than that here tonight. Thank you very much."

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      Thomas Joseph White, O.P., "The need for Catholic intellectuals today," 7 February 2018, St. Saviour's Church, Dublin, f...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

"The amount of creative genius in any period is strictly in proportion to the amount of [prayer] . . . at that period."

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"Extreme attention is what constitutes the creative faculty in man and the only extreme attention is religious.  The amount of creative...