“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via versolalto)
(Source: a-ladder-to-the-stars)
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C. S. Lewis (via ermarty)
(Source: anenlighteningellipses)
“Speculation over history, looking ahead into the unknown future - these are not fitting attitudes for a disciple. Christianity is the present: it is both gift and task, receiving the gift of God’s inner closeness and - as a consequence -bearing witness to Jesus Christ.”
Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two (via invisibleforeigner)
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Thomas Jefferson (via cdnowak)
“I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
—Emily Brontë
Painting: Patrick Branwell, Emily Brontë, 1835.
“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”
Ezra Pound (via human-voices)
(Source: whatokay)
“Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.”
Augustine of Hippo
“He was, and was, and was: but was only one. He was light and light and light: but only one light. This is what David imagined when he said: ‘in thy light do we see light’ (Psalm 35:10). And now we have contemplated it and proclaim it, from the light that is the Father understanding the light that is the Son in the light of the Spirit: here is the brief and concise theology of the Trinity […] God is, if it is licit to speak succinctly, undivided in beings divided one from the other.”
Gregory of Nazianzen (h/t Mike Eppler)
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via libraryland)
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