reminds me of The Box

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If you believe what you like in the gospels,

and reject what you don’t like,

it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

~ St. Augustine

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"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

"Christians must be to the world what the soul is to the body."

Michael Voris

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“The dictatorship of relativism is confronting the world. It does not recognize anything as absolute and leaves as the ultimate measure only the measure of each one and his desires.

“‘Adult’ is not a faith that follows the waves in fashion and the latest novelty. Adult and mature is a faith that gives us the measure to discern between what is true and what is false, between deceit and truth.”

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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 

Excerpts from his homily at the Conclave that elected him Pope

"For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?"

Ian McEwan

"There is a mysterious alchemy in the putting together of rooms and houses. Myriad ingredients combine to create the perfect interior: lights, views, the relationship of one room to the next, and to the landscape or city beyond; furniture and rugs; books and lamps; plants and flowers; sounds — the ticking of a clock, or the deep, still silence of an old room in the country; and scents — of garden roses, or woodsmoke. Or maybe it is the personality of the owner that is strongest, woven into every fibre?"

Ben Pentreath, from English Decoration