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Thu, 16 May 2013 18:04:19 -0400

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:12:45 -0400

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

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

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:43:42 -0400

“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."

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:55:26 -0400

“Christians must be to the world what the soul is to the body.”

- Michael Voris

"“The dictatorship of relativism is confronting the world. It does not recognize anything as..."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:41:45 -0400

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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

line by line | the walkmen

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:11:12 -0400

line by line | the walkmen

"For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense...."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:04:08 -0400

“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..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:46:17 -0500

“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

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:54:19 -0500

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

- Antione de Saint-Exupery

jonathancarrollstories: One night at a hotel bar in Texas,...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:21:00 -0500

jonathancarrollstories:

One night at a hotel bar in Texas, someone told me the story of a man who for years made audio recordings of all his favorite sounds: trains passing through town at night, wind in the trees, crashing ocean waves, fire crackling in a fireplace, certain birds, rain on the roof… He did it so that if he ever became very sick and incapacitated, he could listen to those sounds to remind himself of the things in life worth loving and holding onto.

- Jonathan Carroll

beautiful examples of my favorite color. rowenandwren

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:13:00 -0500

beautiful examples of my favorite color.

rowenandwren

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most..."

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:33:44 -0500

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

- C.S. Lewis

lindasinklings: And so Christmas break stretched on, a paper chain of days filled with sleep,...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:24:46 -0500

lindasinklings:

And so Christmas break stretched on, a paper chain of days filled with sleep, reading, coffee, talking, and lots of chocolate, of course.

~ With Sea Salt

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:41:53 -0500

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:31:13 -0500

lindasinklings: gathering days...two hundred twenty five.

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:56:03 -0500

lindasinklings: gathering days...two hundred twenty five.:

I was moved to tears once again reading Linda’s words this week.

lindasinklings:

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It is different this year; too many things have happened in the past weeks to race toward Christmas with reckless abandon, tossing tinsel as though grief had no place. I find a sense of quiet waiting; a deep hope that trappings cannot duplicate.

That first Christmas was not adorned with bells,…

"Sometimes a memory is like a decorated Christmas tree: Over time we embellish it with so many..."

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:41:00 -0500

“Sometimes a memory is like a decorated Christmas tree: Over time we embellish it with so many ‘ornaments,’ tinsel, candles, and strings of lights… that we can no longer remember what the tree looked like in its original state.”

- Jonathan Carroll

"And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year..."

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:34:42 -0400

““And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back-if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?””

- C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Plane

theparisreview: “I think books should have secrets, like people...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:18:27 -0400

theparisreview:

“I think books should have secrets, like people do. I think they should be there as a bonus for the sensitive reader or there as a kind of subliminal quavering. I don’t think that the duty of the twentieth-century fiction writer is to retell old stories only.”

— John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43

"We should do our utmost to encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself."

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:48:46 -0400

““We should do our utmost to encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself.””

- Goethe