December 2011
34 posts
“Everything is here and one wants to see and to understand the meaning of this...”
– SOLOVKI ISLANDS/ The Beauty of the “Mother Tumor of the Gulag” (via quaerere-deum)
“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water (via invisibleforeigner)
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
– William Blake (via mikegarycole)
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“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will...”
– Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)
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“If I am not for myself who will be? But if I am for myself only, what am I? And...”
– Hillel (Tractate Avot)
“For there is one kind of man who takes off his head and throws it in the gutter,...”
– On Losing One’s Head by Gilbert Keith Chesterton from The Spice of Life & Other Essays (via theoryintransit)
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C. S. Lewis (via bookmania)
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“Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God’s...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via mikegarycole)
“”Remember that when your heart feels restless, when your heart feels hurt, when...”
– Mother Teresa (via bittervictory)
“Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with its surer and more...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Heretics (via crypte)
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“In this crazy world, there’s an enormous distinction between good times and bad,...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via mikegarycole)
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are...”
– Thomas Merton (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Preface (via bookmania)
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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (via azspot)
“For the Christian there is no such thing as a “stranger”. There is only the...”
– St Edith Stein (via catholicinspiration)
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“I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear/Volokhonsky translation)
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“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their...”
– J.D. Salinger (via adelaidetheanonymous)
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“I would pretend (metaphorically) to have seen nature and universe themselves not...”
– (via quaerere-deum)
“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. —Boris Pasternak”
– (via quaerere-deum)
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“We need to remember that the great imaginative invention we now call the...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words (via invisibleforeigner)
“God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts...”
– C.S. Lewis (via redeemedheart)
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading...”
– G. K. Chesterton (via schrenk)
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“Always read for it is better than any other work. The mind may go astray in...”
– Saint John the Short (via orthodoxbrit)
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“Our grammar often betrays us. We say we have a body. That seems to suggest that...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words (via invisibleforeigner)
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“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music...”
– Henry Miller (via human-voices)