Saturday, October 19, 2019

"technology is never merely technology. It reveals man and his aspirations"

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"Technology — it is worth emphasizing — is a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy and freedom of man. In technology we expr...

"I am the resurrection and the life."

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"All the efforts of technology [(technicae artis)], however beneficial, cannot allay human anxiety, and the prolongation of biological ...

"he raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and life, and blessing."

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Ravenna, Museo Arcivescovile, Cathedra of Archbishop Maximian ἀνυψῶν ψυχὴν καὶ φωτίζων ὀφθαλμούς, ἴασιν διδούς, ζωὴν καὶ εὐλογίαν.    ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

"The certainties of physics might establish an intellectual foundation, and philosophical ambiguities may delight, but not much compares to the roar of a bike."

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      Matthew B.Crawford, as quoted in  The chronicle of higher education,  8 April 2015 .
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

"doxological contrition"

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"From my youth, O Saviour, I have rejected Thy commandments.   Ruled by the passions, I have passed my whole life in heedlessness and s...

"Joy to the world"

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"from its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the only possible joy on earth.  It rendered impossible all ...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

"A church is a building meant for a purpose served by no building we know."

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     Richard Kieckhefer, Theology in stone:  church architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004), 69, on...